Illusion Quotes

The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?

Let the American infidels bask in their illusion.

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

Illusion never changed into something real.

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

Saturday is an illusion.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

Black illusion is all I ever see.

True Love. I’m starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney.” — Cupcake

Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

Illusions are bound to be shattered

Crowds create illusions.

All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.

Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.

The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not.