Quotes About Illusion

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

Mañana, y mañana, y mañana se arrastra con paso mezquino día tras día hasta la sílaba final del tiempo escrito, y la luz de todo nuestro ayer guió a los bobos hacia el polvo de la muerte. ¡Apágate, apágate breve llama! La vida es una sombra que camina, un pobre actor que en escena se arrebata y contonea y nunca más se le oye. Es un cuento que cuenta un idiota, lleno de ruido y de furia, que no significa nada.

Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Some there be that shadow kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

I am not what I am..

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

Away and mark the time with fairest show, False face must hide what false heart doth know.

Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Noi siamo della stessa materia Di cui son fatti i sogni E la nostra piccola vita È circondata da un sonno.

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? Malvolio: Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. Feste: But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? POLONIUS By th'mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET Or like a whale? POLONIUS Very like a whale. HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. - They fool me to the top of my bent. - I will come by and by.

William Shakespeare

Nothing that is so, is so.

My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

What relish is in this? How runs the stream? Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!