Quotes About Illusion

Sham dead,' I said. 'Dead! Dead dog!' I hoped that this word was in his vocabulary. It was. In a moment Mars's legs sagged and his body became limp and he slid to the ground, his eyes turning back and his mouth hanging open. It was terribly convincing. I was quite upset.

Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless.

His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more

ona aÅŸktan söz ettim. o ise aÅŸk?n din gibi bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunu, asl?nda var olmad??? halde sistemin bizi daha kolay kullanmak için uydurduÄŸu bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunu söyledi.

We all see what we want to see.

They try to con you that making that kind of choice day in, day out, makes you feel free or alive or self-actualised. But it's shite, a lifebelt to stop us all from going fuckin mad at the lunacy of this fucked-up world we've let them shape around us.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

?tiin?a este arta de a crea iluzii acceptabile.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had.

people live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is.

humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos.

Si utilizara el ingenio que los buenos espíritus me dieron, entonces diría que esta dama no puede existir, pues ¿qué hombre en su sano juicio llamaría al sueño realidad? Sin embargo yo preferiría no ser cuerdo y prestar crédito a mis ojos hechizados

Toda humanidade pode compartilhar a mesma insanidade e estar imersa em uma ilusão comum enquanto vive em um caos comum.

The mistiness of distance hides the truth

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos.

If you told me he were Satan in masquerade, there would be a faint chance that I might believe you.

This is all disillusioning, Beenay. I thought it was only us psychologists who made the data fit the theories and called the result 'science.' Seems more like something the Apostles of Flame might do!

Todo había ocurrido con la catastrófica rapidez de un sueño... y con el irreal horror de una pesadilla.

His face bore a half smile that gave the illusion of friendliness while making it clear somehow that it was only an illusion.

nada tenía que ser verdadero, pero que todo debía parecerlo.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

How is it possible, after all, that someone should simply vanish? How can someone who lived, loved, and wrangled with God and with himself just disappear? I don't know how and in what sense but they're here. Since time is an illusion, why shouldn't everything remain?

Could a man really know what was best for him? How easily men were deluded by a word, a smile, a gesture.