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The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train. — James Jeans

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

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts. — Patrick Henry

The only things that give it the illusion of being one country are the green-back, The Tonight Show, and McDonald's. — Neil Gaiman

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. — John Gardner

Civilisation is hooped together, brought
Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion ... — William Butler Yeats

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. — Milan Kundera

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life. — Johnny Depp

Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious. — Molly Friedenfeld

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

He nurse the illusion that he is one of the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, and hopes that the French Government may be persuaded to buy him. — Saki

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time. — John Ortberg

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. — Philip Treacy

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion. — Alan Watts

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. — Friedrich Hayek

Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend was nothing but an illusion. — Leo Tolstoy

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway. — Nenia Campbell

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion — John Bradshaw

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most ... he saw fireflies where there were none. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears. — Anthony Lane

Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot — Jack Kerouac

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces. — Noel Coward

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image. — August Strindberg

To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours. — Denise Domning

Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it. — Courtney Milan

The most dangerous thing is illusion. — Corban Addison

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion. — Jim Steinmeyer

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II — Tennessee Williams

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin. — James Woods

...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control. — Jordan Castillo Price

Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment. — Vikrmn

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. — Anais Nin

I'm glad to be part of the war on sadness. I'm a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid. — Marc Maron

I quickly learned that the illusion of appearance will always outweigh the truth of what's really inside. — Carian Cole

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others. — Bernard Williams

Stop living in the illusion that some ones anointing will help you rip from where you have not sown — Sunday Adelaja

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future. — Holland Cotter

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life's experience. — Amit Kalantri

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. [ ... ] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion. — Jim Thompson

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. — Philip K. Dick

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it. — Donna Lynn Hope

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

Don't be stupid, privacy is an illusion in today's electronic world. And i always investigate the people who interest me — Shannon McKenna

People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories. — Soroosh Shahrivar

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice ... — Henry Lindell

A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion. — Vivian Amis

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. — Publilius Syrus

This world may be only illusion
but it's the only illusion we've got. — Edward Abbey

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears. — Mooji

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls. — James Rozoff

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God. — Erwin McManus

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. — Joseph Joubert

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher

The greatest illusion of the abstract ego is that it can do anything to bring about radical improvement either in itself or in the world. — Alan W. Watts

This is what selfishness does: it fills you with the illusion of separation — Dimitris Mamakos

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

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. — Emile M. Cioran

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. — George Orwell

Funny how the illusion of safety can make us careless. — Christopher Moore

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud

What greater fetter to anchoring ourselves to the false notion of self could there be than a selfie? It is named after an illusion! — Chris Matakas

Tradition is the illusion of permanence. — Woody Allen

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol. — W.C. Fields

The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion). — Dada Bhagwan

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people. — Paul Park

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing. — Truth Devour

Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade. — Kasie West

A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. — Albert Camus

To see anything other than 'as it is' - that is called the world. — Dada Bhagwan

Christ's love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are. — Pope Francis

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble. — Vernon Howard

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

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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

Maybe that's what love is, in the end: a shared illusion of safety. — Amanda Eyre Ward

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better. — Nancy Gibbs

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody. — Frederick Lenz

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry. — Daniel Kahneman

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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

Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real. — Swami Vivekananda

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. — Stanley Kubrick

The illusion of hope is Hell's greatest joy. — Greg F. Gifune

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it. — Graham Swift

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope. — Sue Miller

It is not what we say to each other every day that establishes all the meaning and beauty and truth, it is everything we think before we speak — Tor Norretranders

Free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight. — Tamora Pierce

Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break. — Peter Akinola

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

We live lives of illusion and miss the incredible reality that exists in every present moment. — Marshall Stern

Fear only has power when I cower under the illusion. — Poppet

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion. — William Scott

And cursed be the illusion for mortals, love, and law: love is a lying fiction, and only hate is true. — Felix Dahn