Illusion Quotes

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What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces… — Frederick Lenz
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all… — Frederick Lenz
Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes. — Frederick Lenz
To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work… — Frederick Lenz
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge. — Anatole France
Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality — Frederick Lenz
Bright and illustrious illusions! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover. — Ouida
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear… — Honore de Balzac
I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me. — William Shakespeare
There are optical illusions in time as well as space. — Marcel Proust
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty,… — Joseph Conrad
Magic lives in curves, not angles. — Mason Cooley
For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the… — Fernando Pessoa
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it… — Blaise Pascal
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new… — Georges Braque
I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself… — Noel Coward
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so… — Henri Frederic Amiel
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time — Karl Kraus
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an… — Laurence Sterne
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in… — Paul Gauguin
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray… — Ayn Rand
Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art. — Joseph Joubert
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes... — David Hockney
However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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