“I also realize... that all our lives we love illusion, neatly caught between confusion and the need to know we are alive.” — The Residents Copy Share Image
Another illusion I chose to create. Don't know what you've got until its gone. — Chicago (Band Copy Share Image
I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it. — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass," The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne” — A.K. Luthienne Copy Share Image
The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion.… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“Then, one sunny September morning, the illusion of a personal God that I tried so hard to believe in, exploded over the… — Nathan Phelps Copy Share Image
Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It's amazing that brands create… — Hunx Copy Share Image
“The bilateral illusion of unilateral attention was almost infantilely gratifying from an emotional standpoint: you got to believe you were receiving somebody's… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“No one in this world is a ‘doer’. To say that ‘I am doing,’ is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm no Joan of Arc, but it's pretty revolutionary having a gender illusionist selling the illusion of beauty to females. — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Control is an illusion. Expectations will not rule my days. Not anymore.” — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
“If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.” — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We live in a world of illusion and when reality is finally revealed to us, it is terrifying.” — Harrison O. Goodhorn Copy Share Image
“This is what selfishness does: it fills you with the illusion of separation” — Δημήτρης Μαμάκος (Dimitris Mamakos Copy Share Image
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
“It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image