Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important. — Colum McCann
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions. — Eckhart Tolle
Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. — Jonathan Stroud
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction. — Arthur Schopenhauer
You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open… — Peter F. Hamilton
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise… — Margaret Atwood
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out… — Eckhart Tolle
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion… — Flann O'Brien
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will… — Ian Mcewan
All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the… — Henri Barbusse
Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing… — Richard Yates
Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are… — Terry Goodkind
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… — Primo Levi
[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of… — Julian Barnes
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and… — Hermann Hesse
The public wants work which flatters its illusions. — Gustave Flaubert
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding… — Loren Eiseley
Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was… — Cormac McCarthy
You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only… — Mark Helprin
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and… — Sigmund Freud
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion,… — David Guterson
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of… — Milan Kundera
Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether… — Megan Whalen Turner
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse… — Italo Calvino
It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all — Joni Mitchell

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