Quotes About Illusion

You are not seeing reality. You are seeing what you are believing. Stop believing and you will see more reality.

Yes, money cannot buy happiness. But it can pay for a very good imitation of it. And most people would not know the difference.

Life is built on perceptions, something between life and death, reality and fantasy.

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be.

It is very easy to believe in a lie, but it's difficult to accept the truth.

At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true.

All heroes are fools, he liked to say. What he meant was, all heroes but me. So who could correct him when he erred? He had stood on the beach looking at Telegonus and believing him a pirate. He had stood in his hall and accused Telemachus of conspiracy. Two children he had had, and he had not seen either clearly. But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

I have seen her do a thousand such tricks a thousand times. My father always fell for them. He believed the world's natural order was to please him.

Esa fue mi primera lección: bajo la apariencia plácida y familiar de las cosas, hay otra cara que aguarda el momento de romper el mundo en pedazos

bajo la apariencia plácida y familiar de las cosas, hay otra cara que aguarda el momento de romper el mundo en pedazos.

I could have cast an illusion over the island to keep them away, I had the power to do it.

Idylle hatte ich unsere gemeinsame Zeit bezeichnet. Illusion hätte es vielleicht besser getroffen.

I had seen him in such moods. Every petty defect of the world enraged him, all the waste and stupidity and slowness of men, and all the irritants of nature too, biting flies and warping wood and the briars that ripped his cloak. When he had lived with me, I'd smoothed all those things away, wrapping him in my magic and divinity. Perhaps it was why he had been so happy. An idyll, I had called our time. Illusion might have been a better word.

No tengo otro recuerdo de mi madre y es tan perfecto que estoy casi convencido de que es fruto de mi imaginación.

I see his face as if through water, as a fish sees the sun.

Comment avions-nous pu nous croire adultes?

How many times would I have to learn? Every moment of my peace was a lie, for it came only at the gods' pleasure.

T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way…We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

two Popsicles are talking to each other. One accuses, "You're more interested in fantasy than reality". The other responds, "I'm interested in the reality of my fantasy." Both of the Popsicles are melting of their sticks.

For no one really knows what color is, where it is, even whether it is. (Can it die? Does it have a heart?) Think of a honeybee, for instance, flying into the folds of a poppy: it sees a gaping violet mouth, where we see an orange flower and assume that it's orange, that we're normal. 39.