Quotes About Illusion

My dreams are a cruel joke, they taunt me. Even in my dreams I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality.

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

The say nothing blinds us like love, but Faye knew that nothing blinds as much as the dream of love. Hope is a powerful drug.

Se algo era merda, cheiraria a merda por mais que se jogasse perfume em cima.

La falta de informacion mantiene puros los espiritus conduce a la decencia o no deja salir al hombre masturbador ni a la mujer masturbadora de la decencia esto que queda dicho es mentira pero parece verdad en todo caso es una mentira que multiples hombres y mujeres que se masturban creen que es verdad.

Cientos y cientos de bachilleres caen en el íntimo, en el sublime y delicadísimo vicio solitario. Y algunas docenas de muchachas esperan -¿qué esperan, Dios mío?, ¿por qué las tienen tan engañadas? – con la mente llena de dorados sueños…

Las cosas nunca son como a primera vista las figuramos, y así ocurre que cuando empezamos a verlas de cerca, cuando empezamos a trabajar sobre ellas, nos presentan tan raros y hasta tan desconocidos aspectos; tal pasa con las caras que nos imaginamos, con los pueblos que vamos a conocer, que nos los hacemos de tal o de cual forma en la cabeza, para olvidarlos repentinamente ante la vista de lo verdadero.

Es grave confundir la anestesia con la esperanza.

Lou Perlman dreamed he was on the threshold of a thrilling new life, even as he understood he was travelling steerage on the same old battered boat of wishful thinking.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

ViaÅ£a afectiv? a introvertitului este în genere latura lui slaba., aceea pe care nu se poate neaparat conta. El se iluzioneaz? singur in aceasta privinta. iar alÅ£ii se iluzioneaz? si se deziluzioneaz? în leg?tur? cu el, dac? îi iau în calcul doar afectivitatea. Spiritul îi este mai sigur, caci este mai adaptat. Natura afectivit??ii sale este prea nedomolit?.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.

It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself.

Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one's own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that they can influence them. But if you look into their dream material, you find that they do only what I do with my disobedient dog: I order him to do those things I notice he wants to do anyhow, so that I can preserve my illusion of authority.

A belief proves to me only the phenomenon of belief, not the content of the belief.

In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively take the place of reality.

like a dream which seems a reality as long as we are in it.

A career, producing of children, are all maya [illusion] compared to that one thing, that your life is meaningful.

One of the doctors who reviewed how people had performed in that operating room could have been speaking about denial in general when he astutely said: "It's like waking up in your house with a room full of smoke, opening the window to let the smoke out, and then going back to bed.

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

Rock star. The words are so full of smoke and mirrors that it's impossible to find a real person behind them. But I am a rock star. I have the bank account of a rock star and the platinum records of a rock star and the girlfriend of a rock star. But I fucking hate that term, and hearing Mia pin it on me ups the level of my loathing to a new stratosphere.

He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be