Quotes About Illusion

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between.

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

A veces dudo de mi memoria y me pregunto si únicamente seré capaz de recordar lo que nunca sucedió

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.

Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

Tiene usted mala cara - dictaminó. - Indigestión. - ¿De qué? - De realidad.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Marina me dijo una vez que sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió

Me habló de sus dudas y de sus miedos, de cómo toda una vida le había enseñado que cuanto tenía por cierto era una simple ilusión y que había demasiadas lecciones que no valía la pena aprender.

Although I could hear the echo of my footsteps, I could have sworn I was walking a few centimeters above the ground

Hope is cruel and has no consequence

You don't look well, he pronounced. Indigestion, I replied. From what? Reality. Join the queue.

Às vezes, as coisas mais reais só acontecem na imaginação. A gente só lembra do que nunca aconteceu.

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

the public will always choose a warmed-up lie over the cold truth.

Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots. I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.

Sometimes, the things that are the most real only happen in one's imagination, Oscar, she said. We only remember what never really happened.

Una vez me dijo que sentìa haber sido una decepciòn para mì. Le pregunté que de donde habìa sacado aquella idea absurda. De sus ojos, padre, de sus ojos, dijo. Ni una sola vez se me ocuriò que tal vez yo habìa sido una decepciòn todavìa mayor para ella. A veces nos creemos que las personas son décimos de loterìa: que estàn ahì para hacer realidad nuestras ilusiones absurdas.

We only remember what never really happend