Illusion Quotes · Page 27

“Maybe that's what love is, in the end: a shared illusion of safety.”

— Amanda Eyre Ward

“We project an illusion of our ideals instead of seeing other people as they really are.”

— Jocelyn Soriano

“Love my fellow people, is an optical illusion, don’t believe in it”

— Ashraf Shaikh

“I am doing it’ is an illusion and ‘this is mine’ is also an illusion, but ‘I am’ is true. ”

— Dada Bhagwan

The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.

— Andy Dunn

“the only things that give it the illusion of being one country are the green-back, The Tonight Show, and McDonald’s.”

— Neil Gaiman

Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an…

— Leon Brown

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

— Lauren DeStefano

I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather…

— Eavan Boland

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to…

— James Broughton

Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion…

— Victoria Finlay

People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place…

— Richard Misrach

The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything…

— Charlie Sykes

I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained…

— Phil Woods

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives…

— Alan Watts

We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have…

— Meghan O'Rourke

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

“stepped out of the tent on to nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside me, but neither he nor I…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Kobo Abe

There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“But does it really help if a person doesn't realize what he lacks, or, if he does, he insists that he doesn't…

— Nikolai Chernyshevsky

“For if we regard space and time as properties that must, as regards their possibility, be found in things in themselves, [...]…

— Immanuel Kant

The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge.…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware…

— Anatole France

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

— Azim Daudpota

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice. ”

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

— George Bernard Shaw

“I'm an accident. I'm a lie. And my life depends on maintaining the illusion.”

— Victoria Aveyard

One lie leads to another & before you know it your are living in a world of illusion with no way forwards.

— Anonymous

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

— Charles Addams

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion

— E'yen A. Gardner

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

— Hal Sparks

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

— Sara Gruen

“When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.”

— Bryant McGill

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte