Illusion Quotes · Page 5

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation…

— Fernando Henrique Cardoso

If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

— Satyajit Ray

I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that…

— Jonathon Keats

I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the…

— Vera Wang

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

— Deyth Banger

“Like wind and fire, water and soil, we used one another, to grow and blossom. Love was a dream, elusive as were…

— Iva Hotko

Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you…

— Soren Kierkegaard

We actually allow ourselves to choose to have different experiences and to liberate ourselves to see past the illusion, past the fear…

— Christine McCormick Day

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

— Brian Greene

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

— Philip Treacy

In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have…

— Carmen Boullosa

“Love is a challenge with an illusion emanating an aura of otherness. Through their unrelenting attention, two smitten people can arouse a…

— Erik Pevernagie

Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!…

— Laurence Sterne

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail,…

— Gustave Flaubert

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

— John Cusack

Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It's amazing that brands create…

— Hunx

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever…

— Khaled Hosseini

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Cupid is anything but cute. As for handing our hearts, he’s more likely to rip them out. (Julian) But he can make…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

— Edward Abbey

And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter,…

— Umberto Eco

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

— Edwin Way Teale