Illusion Quotes

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On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. — Henry Miller
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a… — J. G. Ballard
An idyllic childhood is probably illusion. — Martha Grimes
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a… — Spencer W. Kimball
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous… — Khaled Hosseini
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand… — Amy Tan
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words… — Theodore Dreiser
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the… — David Guterson
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to… — Henry James
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I… — Hermann Hesse
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… — Joseph Conrad
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All… — Douglas Preston
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. — Barbara Kingsolver
We're all travelling heavy with illusions. — Sherman Alexie
If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one. — Michel Houellebecq
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair,… — Evelyn Waugh
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions… — George Eliot
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you… — Tennessee Williams
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget… — William Faulkner
Time is an illusion. — Albert Einstein
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you… — Walt Whitman
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered… — Michael Chabon

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