Illusion Quotes

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.

There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Face your worry and see it as an illusion. It cannot exist unless you give it power and give it life.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes.

No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work-wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.