Quotes About Illusion

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful." "One may lose one's way." "All ways end at the same point, my dear Gladys." "What is that?" "Disillusion.

What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

Prism! Where is that baby?

Why didn't you tell me that the only thing worth loving is an actress?

In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.

The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of Art, and Art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth.

One should not look at anything. Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors is it well to look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.

For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to order one's own dinner is not at all bad.

Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slightest breath.

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