Illusion Quotes

Disillusion is the last illusion.

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

I don’t want to hang on and Cry over something so little, Like a springtime illusion that’ll disappear after I wake up

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.