Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these… — Barry Lopez
I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder… — Michael Jordan
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of… — Sherry Turkle
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a… — C.S. Lewis
Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give… — Sarah McLachlan
Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion. — Leon Brown
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. — Nicolas Chamfort
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to… — Jean de la Bruyere
The most dangerous thing is illusion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. — George Eliot
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 know life at… — Joni Mitchell
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. — Arthur Miller
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Philibert Joseph Roux
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your… — George Santayana

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