“I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.” — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. — Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.' — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Mentalism is a harmonious blend of beauty and intelligence, the perfect balance of art and science.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life...… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“There is no instant anything. Overnight success is a lie. That lie is just one of many lies that youth want to… — Mark T. Sneed Copy Share Image
“So there you have it: hearing voices at sea is not a pathological condition. It’s quite normal. Welcome to the world of… — Nic Compton Copy Share Image
“From his earliest years Cincinnatus, by some strange and happy chance comprehending his danger, carefully managed to conceal a certain peculiarity. He… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“But he recognized that the illusions of the child only differed from those of the man in that they were more picturesque;… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The soul does not give up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is no cure for illusions. There is only the opportunity for discovery.” — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Mission impossible completed, obstacles of optical illusions, we dont really see em. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. — Luis Palau Copy Share Image
Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“When everything is never as it seems, how can you tell the illusions from the reality?” — Sacha Gordon Copy Share Image