Illusion Quotes

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s.

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.

We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved organizations, we must each be the first to start the journey.

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita

There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

We create the illusions we need to go on.

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

I had this illusion that if I kind of dressed badly that I wouldn't stand out. You know, so I actually went out of my way to not look different to the extent I could.

people with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living.

What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.

If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!

Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!

The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains.

It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.

Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it doesn't trickle down.

You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.