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Quotes About Illusion

It is beyond doubt that this gray reality, this everyday life of ours, is a camouflage for something else.
~ Mircea Eliade
E foarte greu s? ai ceva cu adev?rat, s?-l capeÈ›i sau s?-l cucereÈ™ti. Mai mult ne închipuim c? posed?m decât posed?m.
~ Mircea Eliade
I potser un no triga gaire a creure's que en realitat no existeix, va fer ella. O que la seva existència corpòria és una aberració.
~ Miriam Toews
O, lijepe moje slatke lutke! Svi smo mi igra?ke u bazaru civilizacije! Svira?i, dame, no?ni desperateri, paralitici, svi se mi mi?emo u izlogu civilizacije po pravilu. Navinuli su nas, igraju se nama, a onda nas bacaju u sme?e!
~ Miroslav Krleža
Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.
~ Mitch Albom
It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.
~ Mitch Albom
people in grief can imagine many things. It makes them feel better. It doesn't make it real.
~ Mitch Albom
For centuries, musicians have sought to find me at the end of a needle or the bottom of a drink. It is an illusion. And it often ends badly. Take
~ Mitch Albom
I think people believe what they want to believe.
~ Mitch Albom
She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart.
~ Mohsin Hamid
I feel the illusion I've twirled around me like a sari start to come undone and fall to my feet.
~ Mohsin Hamid
an old woman told them they had not seen a fox but rather themselves, their love. They wondered if she meant the fox was a living symbol or the fox was unreal and just a feeling and when others looked they would see no fox at all.
~ Mohsin Hamid
The trouble with serenity is that it can then. The trees seem to lose their souls and look again like painted scenery.
~ Mona Simpson
The trouble with serenity is that it can turn. The trees seem to lose their souls and look again like painted scenery.
~ Mona Simpson
Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.
~ Mona Simpson
It is a most certain and most Catholic opinion that there are sorcerers and witches who by the help of the devil, on account of a compact which they have entered into with him, are able, since God allows this, to produce real and actual evils and harm, which does not render it unlikely that they can also bring about visionary and phantastical illusions by some extraordinary and peculiar means.
~ Montague Summers
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
~ Montaigne
Asl?nda insanlar seni hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸratm?yor. Sadece sen, yanl?? insanlar üzerinde hayal kuruyorsun..
~ Montaigne Michel De
Don´t be fooled in the frozen-food section, either. I know a lot of people think that if they buy it at the store and heat it up at home, it´s 'homemade'. Think again. It´s the same processed crap, coming from the same scary meatpacking plants, injected with the same chemicals, supplied by the same wholesalers. Just because you heat it up at home doesn´t mean it´s any better for you.
~ Morgan Spurlock
Dopo un po' chiuse gli occhi e stava quasi per precipitare nelle oscurità del sonno, quando lui disse: «Nulla è reale, eccetto i sogni e l'amore.»
~ N. M. Kelby
You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don't you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths.
~ Nadeem Aslam
it doesn't matter to a person when he is in a hall of mirrors — he himself knows he is the one who is real. The confusion is for the onlookers.
~ Nadeem Aslam
with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world, and would sell you cheap to illusion.
~ Nadine Gordimer