Illusion Quotes

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Most fears are just illusions.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Everything is already healed, except in the dream of illness. Let the illusion go, in exchange for peace.

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

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

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.

An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.