Quotes About Illusion

No one is more afraid of ghosts than those that don't believe in them.

Putting wings on your body can't make you an eagle.

The only truth about shadows is that you can't see them in the dark.

The reward of the fool is that they make you feel as if you were God.

To an ignorant, a small garden is a forest.

Your dreams become illusion when you are working in the opposite with your shadow.

Someone called actors sculptors in snow. Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

When I came here I hoped it would be possible to make some connection with art lovers here, but up to the present I haven't made the least progress in people's affection. And Marseilles? I don't know, but that may very well be nothing but an illusion. In any case I have quite given up gambling much on it. Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for dinner or coffee. And it has been like that from the beginning.

Plus elle disparait plus elle apparait. [The more she disappears the more she appears.]

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

Trust not too much to appearances.

Thrice would I have thrown my arms about her neck, and thrice the ghost embraced fled from my grasp: like a fluttering breeze, like a fleeting dream.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

La vie se joue souvent en deux manches: dans un premier temps, elle t'endort en te faisant croire que tu gères, et sur la deuxième partie, quand elle te voit détendu et désarmé, elle repasse les plats et te défonce.

Life is often a game of two halves: in the first half it lulls you, makes you think you're in control; in the second, when it sees you're relaxed and helpless, it comes around again and grinds you to a pulp.

Porn is somehow supposed to be real--something we never expect of film, by its very nature a technique of illusion. We expect porn to show us exactly what we dread about it: the truth of our desire.

American society has willfully deleted the fact of homosexual behavior from its mind, laundering things as they come along, in order to maintain a more comfortable illusion. The censors removed it; the critics said, "Well, look! It isn't there"; and anyone who still saw it was labeled a pervert

Does the troll know he's got his head on back to front?

If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

?nsanlar?n mutluluk, a?k, sevinç olarak adland?rd??? ?eylerin hepsinin yanl?? faraziyeler üzerine kurulu yanl?? hesaplar?n bir birikimi oldu?unu ke?feden herkes, kalbinde sadece korkunç bir bo?luk bulacakt?r.

Hâlâ çok gençtim ve insanl???n büyük ço?unlu?unun aptalca hikâyelere ve yalanlara inanacak derecede cahil olu?u beni çok ?a??rt?yordu. Dünyadaki misyonumun hakikat yolunda çabalay?p insanlar?n gözlerini açmak, onlar? yan?lg?lar?ndan dolay?s?yla da sahtekârlar?n elinde oyunca olmaktan kurtarmak oldu?u fikrine kap?lm??t?m.

[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into.

A whirl of torrid dust veils the picture.