Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror… — Sherman Alexie
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty. — Erich Maria Remarque
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything… — Barbara Mertz
Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy. — Melissa Marr
The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm… — David Levithan
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked… — Nicholas Sparks
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is an illusion that last too little. — Annette Curtis Klause
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I… — Rene Descartes
The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- vampires, my parents, everything. He’d told me… — Claudia Gray
safety and love are both illusions! — Eric Jerome Dickey
Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic. — Libba Bray
The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. — Salman Rushdie
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions… — Wystan Hugh Auden
His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything… — Isabel Allende
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood… — Libba Bray
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of… — Salman Rushdie
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as… — George Balanchine
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church… — Thomas Merton
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful… — Zora Neale Hurston
It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions… — Mikhail Lermontov
Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were… — Haruki Murakami
The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining… — Terry Eagleton
All is but illusion and disaster. — Voltaire
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… — Erich Fromm

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