Illusion Quotes · Page 38

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

— Zadie Smith

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

— Frederick Lenz

“Daylight dreamer beware, Thin is the wall of illusion. The magic might be over too soon, Before you even reach the sun.”

— Joso Skarica

“Now they were regaining consciousness– were being treated to a cruel and lovely illusion.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.”

— Lionel Suggs

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

— Nicolas Chamfort

There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion.

— Georges St-Pierre

“I know that life is just a game An illusion that will fade Cheat and lie, have it your way But you…

— Samy Yusuf

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and…

— Jurgen Moltmann

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out…

— Michael Jordan

Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible…

— Caroline Myss

For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion…

— Fernando Pessoa

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the…

— Barry Lopez

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not…

— Pierre Bayle

Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that…

— Doug Henning

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact,…

— David Brinkley

“We leave situations that are constantly painful or we seriously change them. However, the Greyness is more deceptive than that. It prolongs…

— Donna Goddard

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

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable…

— Bruce Hood

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost…

— Bertrand Russell

Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the…

— Al Gore

“You've done her a service to teach her that romantic love is largely made of illusion." [said Mina.] "Is it?" Alessandra asked,…

— Barbara Quick

When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both…

— Allen W. Wood

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

— Andre Luiz Moreira

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with…

— Patricia Piccinini

Conceit is the illusion that our flaws aren't real. - Mwando, Gift Tawanda

— Mwando Gift Tawanda

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

— H. W. L. Poonja

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love. Life is but illusion, till it's an instrument of love.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real…

— Noam Chomsky

“What an illusion, she thinks, the idea of an ordered, ordinary life.”

— Dalia Sofer

“The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys…

— Robert Wolfe

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

— David Copperfield

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

— Tim Ferriss

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

— Al Goldstein

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

— Valerie Harper

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.

— William V. Shannon

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

— Alan Watts