Quotes About Illusion

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

Iluzja jest przyrodniÄ… siostrÄ… nadziei i bywa zwykle w pogodnym nastroju.

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

Mortals don't see the fey. Donia smiled wryly: if they did, Keenan would never have convinced any of them to trust him.

Sometimes the worst monsters hide in plain sight, dressed like regular men.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

Tota novel·la és convencional. La gràcia consisteix a fer que no ho sembli.

When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.

Toda a estória se quer fingir verdade. Mas a palavra é um fumo, leve demais para se prender na vigente realidade. Toda a verdade aspira a ser estória. Os factos sonham ser palavra, perfumes fugindo do mundo.

Aí é que você se engana, Nhonhoso: eu não sou bom. Sou é muito vagaroso nas maldades.

Ele já tinha visto os homens. E aqueles não eram diferentes dos que conhecera antes. Começamos por pensar que são heróis. Em seguida, aceitamos que são patriotas. Mais tarde, que são homens de negócios. Por fim, que não passam de ladrões.

O pai faz abrir a mala do automóvel e de lá espreitam embrulhos e celofanes. São mais os enfeites que os conteúdos, mas não é assim mesmo a festa: feita de ilusão e brilhos maiores que as substâncias?

Mas a morte é uma guerra de enganos. As vitórias são só derrotas adiadas. A vida enquanto tem vontade vai construindoa pessoa.

Quem confunde céu e água acaba por não distinguir vida e morte.

Onde, nos outros, há lembranças, em mim apenas há mentiras e miragens.

A felicidade é uma coisa que os poderosos criaram para ilusão dos mais pobres.

Toda a cidade bela usa um espelho que é feito de água. Basta que haja um lago para que a cidade possa envaidecer.

To a [conspiracy theory] believer nothing happens by accident, nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected.

From his book "Was That Me? Turning Points in my Life." A quote from my father, "The easiest person to fool is yourself."

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

Sabrina turned back to the house and saw the horrible truth- a pair of legs was sticking out from beneath it and they were wearing a pari of shiny silver shoes with a remarkable red tint to them. She suddenly realized they hadn't just entered a story. They had entered one of the most famous stories ever told. "Daphne, I don't think we're in Ferryport Landing anymore.

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.