Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding. — Hanif Kureishi
The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but… — Raymond Chandler
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will… — Alice Walker
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. — Emile M. Cioran
I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for… — Emile M. Cioran
The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die — illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can… — Kate Bush
When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then… — Ernest Hemingway
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it. — David Blaine
We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness. — Daniel Gilbert
How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream… — Pope Francis
All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a… — Jimmy Breslin
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you… — Eugene H. Peterson
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens… — Kenny Smith
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. — Isabel Allende
If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made… — Deborah Feldman
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. — Auguste Comte
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people]… — Thomas Merton
You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people, — Elbert Guillory
Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens. — Javier MarÃas
Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion. — Tom Upton
Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. — Melody Beattie
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image. — August Strindberg
One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who… — Alan Cohen
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer… — Haile Selassie

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