Illusion Quotes

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

You are the harmony within which all things move. They are just illusion.

The illusion for each soul is created by it intentions. Therefore, the illusion is alive at each moment with the most appropriate experiences that you can have in order for your soul to heal.

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

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

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

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

All problems are illusions of the mind.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

One illusion is as good as another.

Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.