Illusion Quotes · Page 39

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

— Richard B. Garnett

“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

Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you…

— Joe Haldeman

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil,…

— Anonymous

“Raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence), krodh-maan-maya-lobh (anger-pride-deceit-greed), they all cause misery. That is called kashaya (inner enemies that gives pain to soul).”

— Dada Bhagwan

That is what the blueprint for this time is about. We're leaving behind the limitations and the illusion of the struggle. We're…

— Christine McCormick Day

“Everything exists as information in a field of infinite possibilities, and it is our Consciousness that renders the information and causes it…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves…

— Madeleine Bunting

“In reality, no one is indeed at fault (doshit). When prakruti (relative self) is the doer, the Self is not responsible. When…

— Dada Bhagwan

A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a…

— Joan Z. Borysenko

We are 'writers,' we are not supposed to be interested in filthy lucre, we are supposed to be starry eyed artistes. ...…

— Max D. Adams

Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being,…

— H. P. Blavatsky

It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that…

— Charles Webster Leadbeater

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in…

— Oscar Wilde

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as…

— Harriet Martineau

Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's…

— Christopher Hitchens

We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans…

— Thomas Berry

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter…

— Theodore Dreiser

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

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

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

— Lauren DeStefano

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

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

— Leon Brown

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

— Anais Nin

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

— Sigmund Freud