Illusion Quotes · Page 55

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

— Boy George

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

— E'yen A. Gardner

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

— Hal Sparks

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

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

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

— Bryant McGill

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

Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while, you actually feel like you've become one…

— Nicole Krauss

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is…

— Edward Sapir

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

— Philip Treacy

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained…

— David Eagleman

Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself…

— John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its…

— Francesca Lia Block

I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't…

— Joni Mitchell

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the…

— Evelyn Waugh

All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity…

— James Hillman

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Khaled Hosseini

The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by…

— Al Gore

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we…

— Saul Bellow

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

— Richard B. Garnett

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

— Alan Watts

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Dalia Sofer

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

“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

“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