Illusion Quotes · Page 45

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

— Vladimir Putin

“Substitution . . . the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

— Anonymous

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in…

— Libba Bray

“Don’t become manipulated by the illusion of who you think you are, or who you think you should be.”

— Steven Redhead

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

— David Levithan

Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.

— Courtney Summers

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

— Ruth Bernhard

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least…

— Thomas Merton

The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies…

— Camille Paglia

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

— Albert Einstein

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy…

— Oliver Gaspirtz

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who…

— Kabir

There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through…

— Barry Long

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen…

— Richard Dawkins

Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never…

— Jeanne Elium

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the…

— Nelson Mandela

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times…

— Willa Cather

The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we…

— Baron d'Holbach

“This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real,…

— Chris Lilley

The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is…

— Justin Raimondo

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream…

— Khaled Hosseini

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

— Fernando Pessoa

Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold

— Van Morrison

You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.

— L. Ron Hubbard

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

— Albert Einstein

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

— Erich Maria Remarque

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

— Emilio Estevez

Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.

— George Harrison

Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.

— Neil Kurshan

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

— Pablo Picasso

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

— Albert Einstein

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

— Simone Weil

Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things…

— Frederick Lenz

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

— Victor Hugo

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

— Anonymous

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

— Cyril Connolly

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

— Grace Jones