Illusion Quotes
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..ıs the struggle of lıfe.
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.
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.
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.
This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.
Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.
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.
Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
Everything is illusion, except for the Divine Love of God that is all-pervading which you can feel through your Spirit.
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.
What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.
Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.
To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.
I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
![Illusion Quotes: "The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations235/The-whole-thing-s-illusion-Jacob-and-235295.jpg)
The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.
So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.
Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.
Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.
