Quotes About Illusion

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

Yet since 1917 the Soviet Union had created an edifice of self-deceit unrivalled in human history.

Germany's highest commander succumbed to a disease common among senior soldiers of many nationalities and eras: he wished to demonstrate to his government and people that their vastly expensive armed forces could fulfil their fantasies.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

poppy in wine.

When we cannot obtain a thing, we comfort ourselves with the reassuring thought that it is not worth nearly as much as we believed.

Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Everything is a spook

When we're young we have faith in what is seen, but when we're old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.

We live in a world of shadows ... we are not what we are, but what is said of us and what we read in others' eyes.

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

Experimental and clinical psychologists have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

I guess I had all kinds of ideas about him, but they weren't really him, they were just what I made him in my head. The reality was not as attractive as the ideal.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

Kasno je, sje?anja, uzalud se javljate, beskorisne su vaše nemo?ne utjehe i podsje?anja na ono što je moglo da bude, jer što nije bilo, nije ni moglo da bude. A uvijek izgleda lijepo ono što se nije ostvarilo. Vi ste varka koja ra?a nezadovoljstvo, varka koju ne mogu i ne želim da otjeram jer me razoružava i tihom tugom brani od patnje.

Sve je bilo mogu?e, a ništa se nije ostvarivalo.

Ne znam odakle je našla u meni sve te divne osobine o kojima nisam ni sanjao, niti sam želio da ih imam. Ali zašto bih kvario njenu naivnu sliku? Zašto joj ne bih izgledao tako kako me ona vidi? Bi?u njen ponos i zaštita, ovakav nikakav, podrža?u njenu vjeru u mene, jer joj je potrebna. Bi?u tobože snažni hrast nad njenom krhkom stabljikom. Izgleda da zaista sanjamo život.

And what never happened always seems beautiful. You are a deception that gives birth to discontent, a deception that I cannot and do not wish to drive away, since it disarms me and protects me from suffering with a quiet grief.

The earth is uninhabitable, like the moon, and we only delude ourselves thinking that it's our true home, since we have no other place to go. The earth is good for those who are irrational or invulnerable.

Ne voliš ljude? -Ljudi su kona?no izdijeljeni, niko nam ne može pomo?i, ponekad se pravimo da to ne znamo, ili zaboravljamo jer nam izgleda nemogu?e, ne mirimo se ali je tako. Neka idu do ?avola. -Ni život ne voliš? -Ostavi me na miru! Šta ho?eš da volim? Slaganje varke na varku, davno sam negdje pro?itao. I smijao se. Sad se ne smijem. Nije veseo taj tvoj život.

A uvijek izgleda lijepo ono sto se nije ostvarilo.

Idi od mene, odvratna nemo?i, zavaravaš me lažnim slikama rastere?enja, koje nisu ?ak ni želje.