Quotes About Illusion

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

La falsa luz sólo nos lleva a adentrarnos más en la oscuridad.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you.

In the dream they were only shadows, grey wraiths on horses made of mist.

A nightmare this might be, yet it was no dream.

fools believe in foolish things.

He won't hurt me. This is not the day I die." The male walked toward them, unafraid, and reached out for his muzzle, a touch as light as a summer breeze. Yet at the brush of those fingers the wood dissolved and the very ground turned to smoke beneath his feet and swirled away laughing, and then he was spinning and falling, falling, falling

Many called her beautiful. She was not beautiful. She was red, and terrible and red.

Bright, shining, and empty, Sansa thought.

Every touch a lie. I have paid her so much false coin that she half thinks she's rich.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her." (Letter, 17 June 1837)

The little word is has its tragedies; it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it; and when I discover my error, the world seems to fall asunder and the members of my family no longer know one another.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.