Illusion Quotes · Page 27

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

— Rumi

Whatever we are, its because of our own choices. We end up being what we chose to be.

— Jatin Tanwer

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

“Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

— Jenna Marbles

“The beautiful boy from my dreams turned out to be nothing more than a trickster. An illusion I was too blind to…

— Bianca Scardoni

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

— H. W. L. Poonja

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“One cannot break the illusion of the state of doership by himself. Only the Gnani Purush (One who has realized the Self and is…

— Dada Bhagwan

I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to…

— Debbie Reynolds

“All things, my son, transmute into old age, life diminishes, everything declines, the proliferation of kinds is a mere illusion, and no…

— W.G. Sebald

“We live in an illusion of safety while we hide in caves made ​​of glass looking for trees of concrete. Even our…

— Juliano Alves

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was…

— Julian Barnes

I'm looking for the binding energy of a look a crop of reflections to be reaped in a winter of thorn when…

— Nancy Peters

“how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet—for me, anyway—all that’s worth living…

— Donna Tartt

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the…

— Christopher Hitchens

A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of…

— Kobo Abe

So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to…

— Madeleine Bunting

Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a…

— Sam Harris

As each one of us awakens, it is like a light going on, followed by another light, another light, and another light.…

— Leonard Jacobson

“V.V. sought to express something, which until expressed had only a twilight being (or even none at all--nothing but the illusion of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours,…

— Kat Edmonson

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in…

— Ingmar Bergman

“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love. Life is but illusion, till it's an instrument of love.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

— David Copperfield

“The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys…

— Robert Wolfe

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

— Tim Ferriss

“What an illusion, she thinks, the idea of an ordered, ordinary life.”

— Dalia Sofer

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real…

— Noam Chomsky

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

— Valerie Harper

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed…

— Al Goldstein

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

— Richard B. Garnett

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

— Alan Watts

What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.

— William V. Shannon

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

— Bob Dylan

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

— Boy George

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”

— Cassandra Clare

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

— Napoleon Bonaparte