Quotes About Illusion

It might have been a single day; it might have been a week; from his dreams, it could have been months.

Like Santa Claus. You adults pretend he doesn't exist, but we know that he really does.

My father once told me that there are no gods; only the cruel manipulations of evil people who pretended that their power was good and their exploitation was love. But if there are no gods; why are we so hungry to believe in them? Just because evil liars stand between us and the gods and block our view of them does not mean that the bright halo that surrounds each liar is not the outer edges of a god, waiting for us to find our way around the lie.

Mas nesse momento, sua cabeça inclinada para trás, as folhas verdes e macias se movendo gentilmente na brisa quase imperceptível, sentiu um poderoso déjà-vu. Ele havia olhado para essas folhas antes. Recentemente. Mas isso era impossível. Não havia árvores grandes em Trondheim, e nenhuma crescia dentro do complexo de Milagre. Por que a luz do sol varando as folhas parecia-lhe tão familiar?

The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better.

Todo es una ficción, de todas formas. Hacemos lo que hacemos y luego inventamos las razones, pero nunca son las razones verdaderas. La verdad está siempre fuera de nuestro alcance.

Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

You're bigger than I remembered, she said stupidly. You too, he said. I also remembered that you were beautiful. Memory does play tricks on us. No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

The ship was there. It was there, and still there, unmoving, unchanged. And then it was gone.

Metaphorical flavor doesn't influence reality," said the expendable.

Perversos y retorcidos son los caminos de la mente humana- recitó Jane-. Pinocho fue un idiota intentando convertirse en un niño de verdad. Estaba mucho mejor con su cabeza de madera.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

You're just Ender in drag, doing his Valentine bit. You come off the stage and there's nothing there, it comes off like makeup and a costume.

Sometimes people with the least that is worth stealing are the most concerned with giving the appearance of having great treasures hidden away.

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed.>

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we're not alone.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.