Illusion Quotes
The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.
Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.
The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.
The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.
..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.
One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.
Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.
There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.
It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!
Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.
My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.
When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.
The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.
So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.
I never felt big enough playing Thor. And then people talk about you like you're 9-foot tall and 800 pounds. I'm well aware of the illusion. There's not a second where I go: Yeah, I'm a god.
The letting go is an energetic process that moves us in a different flow of reality beyond the illusion and into more of a free-flowing liberation space.
Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.
