They seemed to be locked behind built-in notions and…

The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I…

— Brett Dennen

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

— Hal Sparks

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not…

— Kim Chernin

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,…

— David Guterson

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

— Maynard James Keenan

Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.…

— Cindy Gerard

Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,…

— Marcel Proust

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

— Van Morrison

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

— Frederick Lenz

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

— Marshall McLuhan

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

— Esther Meynell