Illusion Quotes · Page 48

“Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“In this world, ‘I am the doer’ and ‘I know it’’ - that which brings these two inner intents together is called…

— Dada Bhagwan

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

— Shirley MacLaine

“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.”

— Idries Shah

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

— Nancy Kress

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

— Aleister Crowley

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

— Frederick Lenz

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

— Lewis Black

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's…

— Jo Brand

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto…

— John Steinbeck

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be…

— Sarah Dessen

Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a…

— Donna Karan

Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.

— Lionel Shriver

I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises when we try to…

— Sushant Singh Rajput

Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

— Anonymous

In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one…

— Anonymous

To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in…

— Michael Novak

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket.…

— Max Greenfield

Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of…

— John Hodgman

The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The…

— Thomas Hardy

Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm…

— Mike Tyson

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now,…

— Anonymous

“How to be happy, civilisation's bait, Is vomited up on every peaceful day And redevoured by dogs. - Easter, 1939 ”

— W.J. Turner

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

— David Blaine

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

— Max Jacob

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I would rather know the truth instead of creating an illusion in which I lie to myself.

— Luis Colon

“...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...”

— John Geddes

Life starts with an illusion called love and ends with the magic called death¦

— Shubham Joshi

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

— Ashley Olsen

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

— Emile M. Cioran

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

— Michael Treanor

“Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.”

— Paul Russell

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really…

— David Blaine

“Laughter is illusion… But THE BIGGEST ONE, which you can ever encounter in your life.”

— Deyth Banger

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

— Noel Coward

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche