Quotes About Illusion

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.

It's not the things you don't know that fool you. It's the things you do know that ain't so.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion

The best love affairs are those we never had

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

This is how we get hurt: We start believing it could really last forever.

Loving you is like a beautiful dream, where I know it's not real, but I just don't want to wake up.

Love works in a magical way but never be fooled by the promise of forever.

People aren't always who or what we think, sometimes our love, trust and respect distort the signs that are ever so clear in hindsight.

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Wie falsch und trügerisch die Welt ist! Zuerst lockt sie bunt und glitzert vor Schönheit, dann tut Mama den Mund auf, und alles verwandelt sich in Bazillen und Gelatine.

Man durfte dem Bild nicht anmerken, daß es nicht mehr in Ordnung war, und man mußte immer noch ein wenig Glanz darauf legen. Je mehr sie selbst an Substanz verlor, desto strahlender, dichter und übermächtiger mußte ihr Bild werden.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time.

Papa-Lo start thinking too deep and start thinking that he should be more than what he is. He's the worst kind of fool, the fool who start believing things can get better.

Homer say, Pretty gal go a river and see herself in water. Pretty gal drown when she go down to kiss herself.