Quotes About Illusion

There certainly has remained with me the feeling that my identity is entirely illusory, and that by losing it, I have lost nothing, except something, except everything.

Para usted que ya no la tiene, la libertad es todo. Para nosotros que sí, es meramente una ilusión.

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can't shine a sneaker.

My relationship with God has evolved as well. I no longer rail or beg or sass back. I was standing on a bluff over the ocean the other day and suddenly laughed out loud as I realized what an illusion that was, what an impossibility. That would assume a relationship between a "me" and "Other," a separation. There is no otherness; to be separate from God is to be separate from myself, from life itself. What I've been looking for, I'm looking with.

I know that for every mother, there is always the possibility of three in your relationship with your daughter. You, your daughter the way she is, and your daughter the way you want her to be. I learned the hard way ten years ago that that kind of control is an illusion and a barrier.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.

Reality doesn't surprise me. But that's not true: I suddenly feel such a hunger for the "thing to really happen" that I cry out and bite into reality with my lacerating teeth. And afterwards give a sigh over the captive whose flesh I ate. And again, for a long while, I do without real reality and find comfort in living from my imagination.

Only then did she see that her life was miserable. She felt like crying when she saw her other side, she who, as I said, had always thought she was happy.

No fundo ela não passara de uma caixinha de música meio desafinada.

I find the greatest serenity in hallucination.

Do you know it's a lie? That I didn't dream about you?

For her reality was too much to be believed.

I am transfiguring reality—what is it that's escaping me? why don't I reach out my hand and take it? It's because I only dreamed of the world but never saw it.

Eles olhavam e não a viam. Ela fazia mais sombra do que existia.

Give me your hand. Because I no longer know what I'm saying. I think I made it all up, none of this existed! But if I made up what happened to me yesterday — who can guarantee that I didn't also invent my entire life prior to yesterday?

O tempo não existe. O que chamamos de tempo é o movimento de evolução das coisas, mas o tempo em si não existe.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Alas, it is an illusion to suppose that the invasion of one element disencumbers another.

So I can understand the mad passion for travel books and their deceptiveness. They create the illusion of something which no longer exists but still should exist, if we were to have any hope of avoiding the overwhelming conclusion that the history of the past twenty thousand years is irrevocable.

Aceptar como tema de discusión, una categoría que nos parece falsa nos expone siempre a un riesgo: el de mantener, en virtud de la atención que se le presta, alguna ilusión acerca de su realidad.

Happiness, of all myths the least likely.

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.