Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

The illusion is we are only physical. — Vanna Bonta
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In… — Dean Koontz
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy
You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight… — Tina Fey
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they… — Rumi
Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of… — Emile M. Cioran
Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over… — David Levithan
I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose… — James A. Owen
No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. — Daphne du Maurier
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of… — Hermann Hesse
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. — James Jones
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from… — Neil Gaiman
The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that… — Thomas Moore
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to… — John Piper
The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm… — Karen Marie Moning
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence… — Leo Tolstoy
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,… — Fernando Pessoa
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don't seem right. I may call it jealousy,… — Ai Yazawa
But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I… — Deb Caletti
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together,… — Nicholas Sparks
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not… — Haruki Murakami
...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both… — Masashi Kishimoto

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