Illusion Quotes · Page 32

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

— Roger Daltrey

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

— Ian Gardner

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

— Anonymous

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will…

— C.S. Friedman

I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But…

— Twiggy

“And I understand what this is. It’s the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy. It’s what happens when the illusion pales…

— Nina LaCour

..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child…

— Alice Glass

Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to…

— Arthur Nersesian

What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these…

— Dinesh D'Souza

In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of…

— Thomas Merton

“You went from my life right into my dreams, i can hardly tell,If i'm cursed or blessed ; I am sure things…

— Aleksandra Ninkovic

Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until…

— Bernard Cornwell

“The illusion is irresistible. Behind every face there is a self. We see the signal of consciousness in a gleaming eye and…

— Thomas Metzinger

“It’s no secret that we all live within a damning illusion called denial. We are doomed by our own far-reaching imaginations and…

— Christopher Hawke

“…[T]he whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we…

— Philip Roth

“How hard it is to kill hope! Time after time, one thinks one has trodden it down, stamped it to death. Time…

— Dorothy Strachey

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

— Azim Daudpota

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

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

— Lauren DeStefano

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

— Leon Brown

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

— Boy George

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

— Bob Dylan

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

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

— Hal Sparks

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

— E'yen A. Gardner

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

— Charles Addams

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

— Bryant McGill

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed…

— Al Goldstein