Illusion Quotes
Clive Barker
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
2674 Aimee Carter
But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.
4514 Amit Kalantri
Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.
3511 Michael Bassey Johnson
Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door.
1820 R. N. Prasher
Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of illusion and reality, trees and forests can offer no help.
1703 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.
1381 Zadie Smith
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.
2778 Gabriel García Márquez
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
2408 Joss Whedon
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.
4856 T.S. Eliot
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
1689 Sigmund Freud
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
3883 Virginia Woolf
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
1538 Irvin D. Yalom
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.
3067 Ruth Tessler Goldstein
The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else - or else we could not endure.
2890 Mike Norton
The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
4816 Jean Vanier
We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.
4292 Virginia Woolf
No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.
2531 Nora Ephron
It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?
3906 Allan Lokos
Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
4026 Jody Gehrman
Maybe illusion and artifice - lies, even - are a necessary part of romance.
3546 Robert Fanney
Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms.
3392 Fernando Pessoa
Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!...
4437 Yann Martel
I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.
1753 Dark Jar Tin Zoo
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
4592 Carla H. Krueger
Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.
4838 Carla H. Krueger
Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
1453 Carla H. Krueger
At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.
1627 Carla H. Krueger
I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.
2687 Carla H. Krueger
It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.
1828 Carla H. Krueger
No trees, sky or ground. No other buildings or fields. No winding path, no brambles, no outhouse or pond or flowers, no sunshine or children playing. Just blackness.
2260 Carla H. Krueger
Even though I knew, deep down, what she was trying to do, I couldn’t hate her. Even when she hurt me, I forgave her.
2940 Carla H. Krueger
Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.
2344 Carla H. Krueger
I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.
3202 Carla H. Krueger
A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.
4462 Carla H. Krueger
Dwelling on the loneliness inherent in a city such as this when you dream of endless mountains and expanses of blue sky is a recipe for torment.
4171 Carla H. Krueger
Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.
4029 Stefan Molyneux
Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.
4402 Kevin Michel
Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism.
1652 Elie Wiesel
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
3513 Kevin Michel
If we look upon the earth as a place where our 'higher selves' have come to learn, to experience, or even to be judged, then the splitting of realities that occurs with the many-worlds interpretation is merely an extension of these functions.
4142 Kevin Michel
You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.
3493 Kevin Michel
The more we delve into quantum mechanics the stranger the world becomes; appreciating this strangeness of the world, whilst still operating in that which you now consider reality, will be the foundation for shifting the current trajectory of your life from ordinary to extraordinary.
2100 Kevin Michel
If you believe that you are not omnipresent, omniscient, and ultimately omnipotent, then you are deluded.
2884 Bryant McGill
Beware! Success is not what you think it is. It's a trap.
3668 Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
4157 Alan W. Watts
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
3113 Arthur Miller
An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.
2119 A.J. Darkholme
Anything you don’t want to deal with can always be written off as being “in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn't go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as we think we know it.
2389 Anna Jae
te midden van
kleuren
verwrongen doch schijnbaar
leeftijdloos
bevind ik mij
schouder aan schouder
met de tijd
haar schaterlach
weerkaatst tegen de muren
van het eindeloze
verstart de wijzers
voor een ogenblik
ongemerkt
verbleekt
wat eens was
zo blijkt
kleurechtheid
een illusie.
3050 Michael Bassey Johnson
Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.
3398 Marie Sabillo
The concept of Time is but the span of our memory.
1071 Josh Stern
The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one
4188 Nicole Kiefer
The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel better. That’s all I ever will be, unable to be that woman in real life.
3433 Christmas Humphreys
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.
3564 Raphael Zernoff
As much as love is the source of power for those who are centred in their hearts, as much fear is the source of illusionary power for those who insist on being led by their heads alone.
1058 Arthur Miller
Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.
1558 Michael Bassey Johnson
Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.
4359 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.
2261 Reinhold Niebuhr
Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.
2257 Muhammad Imran Hasan
Reading Is Very Powerful.... It Gives You The Illusion To See The Past, Present, Future And Even Seeing The Invisible.... So READ....
3166 Michael Bassey Johnson
...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.
4860 Richelle E. Goodrich
Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly.
4846 Geoffrey Wood
I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.
3023 Chuck Palahniuk
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.
4390 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
*Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy.
3049 Saurabh Sharma
Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.
2851 Oliver Gaspirtz
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.
3459 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.
1033 Gaelen Foley
Lucien?”
“Yes, Alice?”
Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him - unpredictable, dangerous as he was. “I think it’s real.
2905 Kasie West
Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.
4305 Daniel Nayeri
If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?
4061 Kresley Cole
Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, weet oblivion to his knowledge. A bounty to his lack. [Sabine]
4042 Luigi Pirandello
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.
2911 Lionel Suggs
The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer.
2805 Judith Guest
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
4542 Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality.
The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality.
The third stage of ignorance is the rejection of altruism.
2938 Fola
Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in
4995 R. N. Prasher
In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.
4280 Marty Rubin
Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can't do.
2004 Kevin Michel
Like the very quantum particles we study, we must be comfortable allowing our view of the world to exist in superposition.
2592 Philip K. Dick
Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.
3819 Marty Rubin
The world is real; philosophy is the illusion.
3593 Na
Illusion close to reality was your love, you certainly are quintessential with your licks and promises.
4656 Zeena Schreck
Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.
1772 Nenia Campbell
Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.
2953 Mazigh Buzakhar
No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence
2318 Zeena Schreck
In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.
3117 E'yen A. Gardner
Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
3941 Amit Kalantri
General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".
4351 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The sacred stillness of your brilliant heart
has as the myriad wonders masqueraded.
But if you knew this secret from the start,
then you'd have quit this Game before you played it.
3152