Illusion Quotes

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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. — Carlos Santana
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right… — Marjane Satrapi
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But,… — George Saunders
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. — Charles M. Schulz
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control… — Haile Selassie
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves… — Sydney Smith
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to… — Gertrude Stein
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even… — John Steinbeck
Friendship has its illusions no less than love. — Stendhal
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas.… — Tom Stoppard
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout… — Tom Stoppard
When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored… — James Surowiecki
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. — Miguel de Unamuno
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. — Voltaire
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. — Oscar Wilde
I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me.… — Rufus Wainwright
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must… — George Washington
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there… — Alan Watts
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. — Simone Weil
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're… — Orson Welles
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will… — Marianne Williamson
People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just… — Steven Wright

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