Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion. — Albert Einstein
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape…… — Alan Moore
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at… — Jean Genet
The death of an illusion tends to disconcert. — Roger Zelazny
Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living. — Jean Rhys
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions… — Albert Camus
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions …… — Jean-Paul Sartre
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted… — Michel Foucault
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion — Khaled Hosseini
In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man,… — Elie Wiesel
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things… — Anne Rice
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher
...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in. — Jean Rhys
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how… — Steven Erikson
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no… — Ellen Hopkins
Imagine: You've spent all day traipsing around London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been living on hope,… — Kevin Brooks
All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier,… — Dan Millman
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom. — B.F. Skinner
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world… — Holly Lisle
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The… — Ingmar Bergman
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so… — Jhumpa Lahiri
something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on… — Lynda Barry

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