Quotes About Illusion

once told Wendell that I'm a terrible decision maker, that often what I think I want doesn't turn out the way I'd imagined.

As to your question--is there such a thing as a fairy tale romance? Prudie would say yes, and in fact she has had one. Alas, they do not endure. Fairy tales are to romance what fireworks are to the night sky. They are transient states...and while temporarily thrilling, not what one builds a life around.

When people delude themselves into believing they have all the time in the world, she's noticed, they get lazy.

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

mistaking feeling less for feeling better.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

You look beautiful." "Anyone can appear beautiful in the shadows.

But in the moonlight they were little more than silhouettes. A reflection of her life. A mere shadow of what she'd expected it to be.

That is the thing about monsters, Pettypeace. They are monsters because they can delude people into believing they aren't.

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

But what clouds our view is the Enemy's skill at cropping photos.

Sin is a mirage, always overpromising and underdelivering. The Enemy works in your life by luring and lying. He promises things he can't fulfill. He challenges God's truth. He attacks God's character and intentions.

The Enemy masterfully paints an inviting picture of freedom.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating! So what! We are interested in the mechanism that ensures that it really is a pudding we are eating and not a poached baby elephant, though we think we are eating our daily pudding!

No further use now for this language, this learning, this whole education through which I was taught to exert myself at the heart of the world. Mirage or mirror, a great enchantment glows in this darkness and leans against the door-jam of ravages in the classic pose assumed by death immediately after shedding her shroud. O my image of bone, here I am: let everything finally decompose in the palace of illusions and silence.

Which raised the question of whether she had ever loved, or even if she could love. And yet maybe what she felt was what everybody felt; maybe it was only the poets and romantics who had blown it up beyond recognition. Surely

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

Je?eli rzeczywi?cie nie ma ?adnej materii na tym ?wiecie, je?li ziemia, po której chodzimy, jest u?ud?, je?eli tak naprawd? nie ma tego, co widzimy, to có? nam pozostaje? Na czym mo?emy zawiesi? kapelusz? Magia to jedyna rzecz, która nie rz?dzi si? "racjonalnymi" prawami.

System jest jak ogon prawdy, a prawda jest jak jaszczurka, zostawia swój ogon w twoich r?kach i bierze nogi za pas, wiedz?c, ?e nowy ogon uro?nie jej w mgnieniu oka". Tak to wyrazi? Iwan Sergiejewicz Turgieniew, znakomity pisarz rosyjski. A tak to przedstawi? Chris: Czasami rzeczywisto?? bywa z?udna. A tak Rashomon Kurosawy: "je?li chodzi o rzeczywisto??, to tak naprawd? ona nie istnieje".

Nada es mentira. Basta con un poco de fe y todo es real.

La materia es tal vez únicamente una máscara entre todas las máscaras del Gran Rostro.

Lloyd, she's here,' I call out, unnecessarily, to my husband (he's not deaf, but it gives me the illusion of being in control).

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.