Illusion Quotes
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A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.
— Lee Bolman
Hindsight creates the illusion that your life has led you inevitably to the present moment.
— Jennifer Egan
Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.
— Mariah Nelson
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
— Milan Kundera
Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.
— Molly Friedenfeld
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .
— Italo Svevo
History, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
— Gaston Bachelard
I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.
— Chuck Palahniuk
"The dream is real but it does not last" - This is an illusion.
— Frederick Lenz
Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those ofillusion. — L. E. J. Brouwer
I have always believed that the light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion; the illusion is the tunnel itself.
— Sam Harris
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
— Alexander Pushkin
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
— Tom T. Hall
Social media is the illusion of connectedness without the interconnectedness that makes us thrive.
— Lisa Cypers Kamen
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
— Vladimir Putin
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
— David Byrne
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
— Jacques Barzun
Time is an illusion, timing is an art.
— Stefan Emunds
In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusion provided to engage and excite us
— Brandon Sanderson
Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.
— John C. Reilly
I will assume for the presentuntil next year
that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will. — William James
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
— Elie Wiesel
Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
— Ashim Shanker
Believe in the hope of your Life Illusion because this is the only real thing that you posses!
— Sorin Cerin
Hope is not illusion.
— Cassandra Clare
Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
— Wole Soyinka
Time is an illusion-to orators.
— Elbert Hubbard
Our greatest national illusion is that a healthy society can be organized around the single-minded pursuit of wealth.
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
— Edwin Way Teale
The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.
— Shirley Maclaine
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.
Martha: Amen. — Edward Albee
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.
— Sheila Ballantyne
Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?
— Ariana Carruth
The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion
— Coco Chanel
Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.
— Susan Blackmore
The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.
— Eleanor Clark
Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.
— A.E. Samaan
Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.
— Jonathan Stroud
She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.
— Piero Scaruffi
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
— Pema Chodron
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
— Simone Weil
Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.
— Philip K. Dick
A man of wisdom knows that life is an illusion, so he lives a life of love and happiness as his mission.
— Debasish Mridha
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Love is the dissolution of the illusion of separation.
— Shaun Chamberlin
Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.
— Juan Gabriel
Transformationwithout work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss
is just an illusion of true change. — Wm. Paul Young
My illusion, the idea of a soul mate, was so entrenched in my fantasy that the thought of letting him go, wrecked me.
— M.R. Field
We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.
— Naoki Higashida
That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor.
— David Gilmour
It's one fucking illusion in this fucking delusion... you don't want to be in my dream, do ya?
— Deyth Banger
I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.
— Martha Cooley
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
— Peter Kreeft
I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.
— Ashley Beale
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.
— Paloma Faith
It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.
— Tarun J. Tejpal
I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
— Perry Christie
Our stories are phantoms of fleeting moments reflected in mirrors.
— Dennis Vickers
We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
— Sherman Alexie
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.
— John Stoltenberg
In prison, illusions can offer comfort.
— Nelson Mandela
It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality.
— Lionel Suggs