Illusion Quotes

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One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are… — Sigmund Freud
Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read… — Nizar Qabbani
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. — Virginia Woolf
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a… — George Orwell
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. — Salvador Dali
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. — Tom Robbins
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What… — Philip Roth
Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We create the illusions we need to go on. — Libba Bray
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his… — Michel Faber
He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a… — Margaret Atwood
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful… — Sigmund Freud
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you -… — Rajneesh
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where… — Edward Abbey
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. — John Gardner
We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the… — Thomas Pynchon
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and… — W. Somerset Maugham
Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false… — Neil Postman
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of… — Graham Greene
It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know… — Christopher Paolini
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. — Virginia Woolf
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from… — Neil Gaiman
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally… — Noam Chomsky

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