Illusion Quotes

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In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions,… — Italo Calvino
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is — Jodi Picoult
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain… — Elie Wiesel
I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to… — Karen Marie Moning
It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is… — Kurt Vonnegut
We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by… — Libba Bray
Living is a risk," I snapped at him. "Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you… — Maria V. Snyder
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter,… — Kevin Brockmeier
Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be… — Luke Rhinehart
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so… — Rene Descartes
The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other. — Milan Kundera
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. — Leo Tolstoy
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning… — Oscar Wilde
In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could… — Masashi Kishimoto
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. — Brennan Manning
Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion,… — Nawal El Saadawi
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. — Anthony Burgess
When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can… — Nicole Krauss
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by… — C.S. Friedman
Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence,… — Sheldon B. Kopp
And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling,… — David Levithan
The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect. — Sara Gruen
They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will… — Christopher Moore
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour… — Roberto Bolano

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