Quotes About Illusion

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

It may come as a severe shock if you havent given much thought to this subject beforebut our precious, cast-in-stone, objective beliefs are often totally in contrast to any reality. Or, more accurately, they are our perception of reality, rather than reality itself.

Your biggest fantasy is walking away from the life (they think) you lead.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Life, like all other games, becomes fun when one realizes that it's just a game.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Im wide awake and now it's clear to me, that everything you see, ain't always what it seems.

NEVER be fooled by what you see on the outside, because on the inside it's often a different story.

Every time I'm supposed to come see him I trick myself into thinking that it's gonna be different this time. But it never is. It's always just different shades of the same.

I guess I was so blinded by who I wanted you to be, that I didn't see who you really were.

Gilberte belonged, during those years at least, to the most widespread variety of human ostriches, the kind that bury their heads not in the hope of not being seen, which they consider highly improbable, but in the hope of not seeing that they can be seen, which seems to them something to the good and enables them to leave the rest to chance.

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailment succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

Mas as coisas que sabemos, temo-las, se não entre as mãos, pelo menos no pensamento, onde as dispomos à nossa vontade, o que nos dá a ilusão de uma espécie de domínio sobre elas.

could hear the tick of Saint-Loup's watch, which must have been somewhere near at hand. The tick changed place all the time, for I could not see the watch; it seemed to be coming from behind me, from in front, from my right, from my left, sometimes to die away as though it were coming from a long way off. Suddenly I caught sight of the watch on a table. So now I heard the tick in a fixed place, from which it did not move again.

I had been mistaken in thinking that I could see clearly into my own heart.