Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into… — David Sedaris
Reason is the illusion of reality — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in… — Tim O'Brien
Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the… — Marcel Proust
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to… — James A. Baldwin
There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the… — Amber Benson
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.… — H. P. Blavatsky
Rocks are space, and space is illusion. — Jack Kerouac
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. — Emile Zola
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless… — Sarah Dessen
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion. — Frank Herbert
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying… — Jose Saramago
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on… — Alberto Manguel
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to… — Tom Robbins
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as,… — Angela Carter
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is… — Louise Erdrich
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or… — Jack Kornfield
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession… — H.G. Wells
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion. — Ram Dass
My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work… — Noel Coward
The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't… — Willa Cather
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that… — Kurt Vonnegut
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? — Lois McMaster Bujold

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