Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank… — Immanuel Kant
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a… — Gustave Flaubert
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based… — Bill Hicks
There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world… — Karen Marie Moning
The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up. — John Green
Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this,… — Joseph Mitchell
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5 — Brian Greene
So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now… — Bob Dylan
As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed… — Jeff Lindsay
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity… — Eudora Welty
When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected… — Ilona Andrews
There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence. — Alan Moore
But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of… — Alan Lightman
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in… — A. Lee Martinez
The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the… — Erich Segal
I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told… — Rick Riordan
There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or… — Nicole Krauss
Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. — Michael Jordan
Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred.… — Tim O'Brien
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint — Brent Weeks
That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about… — Truman Capote
What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their… — Stephen King
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo
Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed… — Mitch Albom

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