Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. — Marguerite Young
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action. — Howard Rheingold
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are… — J.R.R. Tolkien
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our… — Libba Bray
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that… — John Steinbeck
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is… — Italo Calvino
Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life. — Kate Chopin
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness. — Nhat Hanh
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It… — Joseph Brodsky
That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all,… — Libba Bray
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning… — David Hume
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book… — Tom Robbins
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads.… — Kurt Vonnegut
You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it. — Libba Bray
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so… — Hunter S. Thompson
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to… — Frank Zappa
For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever… — Susan Cooper
The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are… — Thomas Ligotti
Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the… — John Hodgman
But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which… — Nick Hornby
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a… — Francesca Lia Block
How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you… — Audrey Niffenegger
I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is… — Tom Waits

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