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Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions. — Eckhart Tolle

Life is only one of the Great Illusions. — Agatha Christie

Some illusions ... are the shadows of great truths. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming. — Aprilynne Pike

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself. — Dan Harmon

I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion. — Yasmine Galenorn

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being. — Bruce Lee

Words are illusions. — Bodhidharma

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin

We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved. — Madonna Ciccone

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it. — Alan Alda

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance. — Frederick Lenz

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. — Anthony De Mello

"There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion. — Frederick Lenz

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Only a child believes his rulers have his best interest at heart," he said. "We would be wise to disabuse ourselves of such illusions. — Julie Wu

We all suffer from dreams. — Bernard Cornwell

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all — Joni Mitchell

I'm not asking for forever," Tamani said. "Yet. I'm just asking for a moment. — Aprilynne Pike

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion. — Rene Magritte

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic. — Amit Kalantri

If I live by illusions, you live by excuses. — Jimi Hendrix

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan

Wisdom will not go with comforting illusions, false sentiment, or the use of rose-colored glasses. — J.I. Packer

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. — Tim Ferriss

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people. — Jorge Amado

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm. — James Anthony Froude

The evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own. — Reinhold Niebuhr

It was enough to disillusion a man, Red Philips remarked, if a man were silly enough to have illusions. Red — James Brady

When you undertake a change like that you have to do it with dreams and hopes, with illusions. To go without them is to merely run away ... — Maria Duenas

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Illusions of freedom will never satisfy me. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance. — Bryant McGill

The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending. — James S.A. Corey

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions. — Zora Neale Hurston

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions ... — Sheila Ballantyne

A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions. — Frederick Lenz

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned — Antonio Gramsci

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. — Ruth Bernhard

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions. — Saul Alinsky

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that. — Hillary Clinton

Most fears are just illusions. — Gary Null

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson

With true beauty, there is no illusion. — James Philip Head

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies. — Vik Muniz

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions. — Sarah Caldwell

I gave everything for you, Vasilisa Petrovna.'
'Not everything,' said Vasya. 'Since clearly your pride is intact, as well as your illusions. — Katherine Arden

Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions. — Frederick Lenz

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. — Karl Germain

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions. — William John Locke

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. — Virginia Woolf

We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur. — Khushwant Singh

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Aww, come on. I don't bite...hard. — Aprilynne Pike

In prison, illusions can offer comfort. — Nelson Mandela

All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? — Edith Wharton

There you are, darling. So sorry I'm late. — Kiersten White

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead. — David Copperfield

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. — Sheila Ballantyne

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

Youth is given up to illusions. — Kate Chopin

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan

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

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

It was a time of beautiful brutal illusions. — Mick Karabegovic

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

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. — Helen Rowland

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. — Oscar Wilde

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Success, fame, and fortune, they're all illusions. All there is that is real is the friendship that two can share. — Michael James Jackson

I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ... — John Geddes

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy. — Stefan Molyneux

He's not David," she added, "but he definitely has his own charm. — Aprilynne Pike

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions. — Mason Cooley

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions. — Bob Dylan

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life. — Sherwood Anderson

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is. — Noam Chomsky

We know so little about ourselves that we often neglect the illusions we create to distract us from finding the answers we need. — Robin Sacredfire

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing. — Anthony Hopkins

The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life. — Nina LaCour

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. — Sigmund Freud

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality. — Walker Evans

I had no idea who I was. Neither did I know that I was living inside the world of dreams and illusions — Susanna Eun

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art. — Amit Kalantri

Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it. — Debasish Mridha

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions. — Ellis Peters

I had no illusions at all that I was beautiful, pretty or even able to attract the right sort of attention from men — Dorothy Koomson

Not all illusions are visual. There are illusions of thought, which we call cognitive illusions. — Daniel Kahneman

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

Some people have remarkably sturdy illusions. — Stephen King

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. — Edwin Way Teale