Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow… — Hunter S. Thompson
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You… — Leo Buscaglia
And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at… — C.S. Lewis
Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion. — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She… — Oscar Wilde
Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita — Laurell K. Hamilton
...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct. — Richard Dawkins
Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three… — Nicholson Baker
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. — Amy Tan
He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see… — John Fowles
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver
At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with approval. "Couldn't have… — Tamora Pierce
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them? — W. Somerset Maugham
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the… — Francesca Lia Block
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life… — Wendell Berry
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others,… — Christopher Hitchens
Cupid is anything but cute. As for handing our hearts, he’s more likely to rip them out. (Julian) But he can make people fall in… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion. — Joyce Carol Oates
The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is… — Milan Kundera
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred — Ludwig Feuerbach
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves… — James A. Baldwin
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to… — Ernest Becker

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