Luis Bunuel Quotes

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

It is faith that moves mountains, because it gives the illusion that mountains move …. Illusion is perhaps the only reality in life.

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Repetition often becomes fact.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

The world begins with what we believe.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. If you have all these doubts, then no one will believe in you and everything will go wrong. If you think the opposite, the opposite will happen. It’s that simple.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

I don't believe in pessimism.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.