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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

My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble. — Victor Hugo

This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion. — Gillian Flynn

You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion. — L. Ron Hubbard

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

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. — Anton Chekhov

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

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion. — Elie Wiesel

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 world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously. — Aldous Huxley

"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 of
illusion. — 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

Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion. — Tom Upton

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

Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can't do. — Marty Rubin

I will assume for the present
until 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

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic. — Ted Chiang

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag. — Criss Jami

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

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. — Ben Katchor

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

It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye. — Kem Nunn

Our greatest national illusion is that a healthy society can be organized around the single-minded pursuit of wealth. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect. — Amit Kalantri

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

Maybe illusion and artifice - lies, even - are a necessary part of romance. — Jody Gehrman

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

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion — Rene Guenon

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion. — Jo Brand

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

Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition. — Jay Samit

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

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it. — Tim O'Brien

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

Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness. — Jill Ciment

One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls. — Sorin Cerin

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

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

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway

Maybe we both fell in love with the illusion of something more — Tahereh Mafi

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

Ari believed we are all a simulation. Matter is an illusion. Everything is silicon. He could be right. But your emotions? They're solid. — Matt Haig

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

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion? — Lily King

Love is the dissolution of the illusion of separation. — Shaun Chamberlin

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control. — Juan Gabriel

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. — Pierre Bayle

Transformation
without 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

Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion — Sam Harris

Our stories are phantoms of fleeting moments reflected in mirrors. — Dennis Vickers

We're all travelling heavy with illusions. — Sherman Alexie

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. — Amit Kalantri

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

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

It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality. — Lionel Suggs