Quotes About Illusion

Actually, he had always preferred the unreal to the real.

I might put it another way: Franz felt his book life to be unreal. He yearned for real life, for the touch of people walking side by side with him, for their shouts. It never occurred to him that what he considered unreal (the work he did in the solitude of the office or library) was in fact his real life, whereas the parades he imagined to be reality were nothing but theater, dance, carnival- in other words, a dream.

If God's masons built real walls, I doubt we'd be able to destroy them. But instead of walls all I see is backdrops, sets. And sets are made to be destroyed.

Un valor vulnerado y una ilusión desenmascarada suelen tener el cuerpo igual de mortificado, se parecen, y no hay nada más fácil que confundirlos.

Se buscan así mismos en las mujeres, buscan su ideal y se ven repetidamente desengañados porque un ideal es como sabemos, aquello que nunca puede encontrarse

A value debased and an illusion unmasked have the same pitiful shell.

The way contemporary history is told is like a huge concert where they present all of Beethoven's one hundred thirty-eight opuses one after the other, but actually play just the first eight bars of each.

Komünistler kapitalizmin evriminin proletaryay? gitgide yoksullaÅŸt?raca??na inanm??lard?, günün birinde Avrupa'n?n bütün iÅŸçilerinin iÅŸlerine arabayla gittiÄŸini keÅŸfedince, gerçeÄŸin hile yapt???n? hayk?rmak arzusuna kap?lm??lard?r. Gerçek, ideolojiden daha güçlüydü.

Meni se, me?utim, ?ini da umjesto zidova svuda vidim samo kulise. A razaranje kulisa stvar je dobra i pravedna.

He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!

I regimi criminali non furono creati da criminali ma da entusiasti, convinti di aver scoperto l'unica strada per il paradiso. Essi difesero con coraggio questa strada, giustiziando per questo molte persone. In seguito, fu chiaro che il paradiso non esisteva e che gli entusiasti erano quindi degli assassini.

Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while as a mistake.

You'll learn either that people aren't human or that you don't know what humans are like

She came from a land where revolutionary illusion had long since faded but where the thing he admired most in revolution remained: life on a large scale; a life of risk, daring, and the danger of death. Sabina had renewed his faith in the grandeur of human endeavour. Superimposing the painful drama of her country on her person, he found her even more beautiful.

Porque o homem pensa e a verdade escapa-lhe. Porque quanto mais os homens pensam, mais o pensamento de um se afasta do outro. E, finalmente, porque o homem nunca é aquilo que pensa ser.

la ilusión que nos hace considerar la situación de nuestra vida como un simple decorado, una circunstancia contingente e intercambiable por la que transita nuestro 'yo', independiente y constante.

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.

He had come to find out once and for all that neither parades nor Sabina but rather the girl with the glasses was his real life, his only real life! He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!

Al igual que todos nosotros, Klima también consideraba real únicamente aquello que llega a nuestra vida desde dentro, gradual, orgánicamente, mientras que a lo que llega desde fuera, inesperada y casualmente, lo veía como si fuera una invasión de lo irreal. Por desgracia no hay nada más real que esta irrealidad.

No hay nada que una más rápido a la gente (aunque solo sea en apariencia e ilusoriamente) que una comprensión mutua triste y melancólica.

Como cada um de nós, Klima só atribuía realidade ao que penetrava na sua vida por dentro, progressivamente, organicamente, enquanto o que vinha do exterior, bruscamente e fortuitamente, era por ele vivido como uma invasão do irreal. Mas, ai de nós, nada é mais real do que este irreal).

Quello che l'attirava verso lo specchio non era la vanità bensì la meraviglia di vedere il proprio io. Dimenticava che stava guardando il quadro di comando dei meccanismi del corpo. Credeva di vedere la sua anima che le si rivelava nei tratti del suo viso. Dimenticava che il naso non è che l'estremità di un tubo che porta aria ai polmoni. In esso vedeva l'espressione fedele del proprio carattere.

Most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, nations) and in redressibility (of mistakes, sins, wrongs)... In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed.

You know,' he went on, 'novels are the fruit of the human illusion that we can understand our fellow man. But what do we know about each other?' 'Nothing,' said Bibi. 'True,' said Joujou. The professor of philosophy acquiesced with a nod of the head. 'The only thing we can do,' said Banaka, 'is to give an account of our own selves. Anything else is an abuse of power. Anything else is a lie.