Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions of… — Eavan Boland
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has… — Andre Bazin
The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people will continue to… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and making us always… — Pope Francis
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except… — Bernard Cornwell
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on,… — Alberto Giacometti
Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force… — Francisco Franco
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. — Alva Myrdal
In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel. — John Trudell
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics… — Stewart Brand
If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked. — Mina Loy
Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that… — Thomas Sowell
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those… — Baron de Montesquieu
Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its… — Donna Karan
There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to… — Nikola Tesla
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which… — Clement Greenberg
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it… — Edward Sapir
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental… — Edward Sapir
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion — John Bradshaw
Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway… — Homer
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. — Eugene Delacroix
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. — Philibert Joseph Roux
We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the… — Stephen Covey
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of… — Kay Redfield Jamison

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