Illusion Quotes · Page 25

While weed sellers keep on getting richer and richer, its smokers sink themselves deeper and deeper into the shit.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

— Lauren DeStefano

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

— Swami Vivekananda

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

— Stephen Fry

“And James Loewen just proved that we all are wrong... this concept is fucking hard to be swallowed.”

— Deyth Banger

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

— Sarah Caldwell

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

— Daniel Kahneman

“There were endless bodies of passengers wearing different colors of clothes, carrying handbags, and electronic devices of different sizes and shapes, giving…

— Louis Yako

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

— Christopher Hitchens

[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

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

— Juliano Alves

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

It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that…

— John Michael Greer

She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there,…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings…

— Anonymous

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended…

— Anonymous

“Whenever you look to your desires and feel a high level of illusions of peace or pleasure, it's not reality. If you…

— Munir Ahmad

“ Refutation of the Assertion That the (Phenomenal) Appearances Are Mind Although forms appear to the mind, the (objective) appearances are not…

— Longchen Rabjam

Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain…

— Peter Medawar

“When real life is wanting one must create an illusion. It is better than nothing.”

— Anton Chekhov

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

— Frederick Lenz

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It”

— John Fowles

“Any action carried out in this world is an illusion (bhranti). One becomes free from illusion when he becomes aware of his…

— Dada Bhagwan

“It's an illusion to think that a choice is open to us, unless we are open to that choice.”

— John Spurling

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

— Carl Sandburg

“The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

— Deepak Chopra

“A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.”

— Gianni Sarcone

When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

— Deepak Chopra

“And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. "I love you, too.”

— Lauren DeStefano

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

— Scott Adams

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

— Melody Beattie

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

— Mary Doria Russell

Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Bianca Scardoni