Quotes About Illusion

This is madness. You're making it into something it's not. It's all in your mind. Sheba was about to protest, and then she laughed. Isn't that the worst place it could be?

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

Janie stood where he left her for unmeasured time and thought. She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just some thing she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible.

I dreamt of traversing the globe in fancy boots, only to discover I was a mouse on a treadmill.

Many a man thinks he is making something when he's only changing things around.

But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over. In a way she turned her back upon the image

But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods--come and gone with the sun. She got nothing from Jody except what money could buy, and she was giving away what she didn't value.

TV is not accurate.

I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded.

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

Artifice is art.

Consequently she watched him with all her eyes, all her mind; and by giving herself up to hopes that were sometimes flourishing, sometimes blighted, she had brought the matter to such enormous proportions that she saw all things in a mental mirage. To use a common but excellent expression, by dint of looking intently she saw nothing.

Chesnel was clear-sighted so long as Victurnien was not there before him. One by one he lost the illusions which the Marquis and his sister still fondly cherished. He saw that the young fellow could not be depended upon in the least, and wished to see him married to some modest, sensible girl of good birth, wondering within himself how a young man could mean so well and do so ill, for he made promises one day only to break them all on the next.

David empfand die schrecklichste aller Demütigungen. Er verlor die Achtung vor seinem Vater. ~ Verlorene Illusionen

What a handsome pair! Strange thoughts assail me as it becomes plain to me that these two, so perfectly matched in birth, wealth, and mental superiority, live entirely apart, and have nothing in common but their name. The show of unity is only for the world.

The day when, as a young girl, in all the radiance of her beauty and all the triumph of her life, she suffered, at the cost of her heart and her sweet illusions, the disenchantment which falls on us so slowly and yet so quickly — for we try to postpone as long as possible our belief in evil, and it seems to come too soon — that day was a whole age of reflection, and it was also a day of religious thought and resignation.

La cuestión del vestido es, por otra parte, de gran importancia para quienes quieren aparentar que tienen lo que no tienen, porque es a menudo el mejor medio de poseerlo más adelante.

All is not gold that glitters,'" he began, his eyes flaming. "That's not it," said Mistigris. "'All is not old that titters.' You'll never get on in diplomacy if you don't know your proverbs better than that.

Love is a maker of false coin, continually changing copper pennies into gold-pieces, and sometimes turning its real gold into copper.