Quotes About Illusion

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke. Les Miserables

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

It is like a skull, which still has holes for eyes, but no longer sight.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens...

Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.

I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.

The soul does not give up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections.

To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow.

My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble.

Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy.

We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we might say that success is a hideous thing. Its false similarity to merit deceives men.

Duša se ne predaje o?aju pre nego iscrpe sve obmane

To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him with all the perfection.

I see a dark light.

In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.