Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does… — Jonathan Lethem
Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage,… — Mark Helprin
In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need — Nora Roberts
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. — Hanif Kureishi
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. — Henrik Ibsen
What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only,… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing a line from… — Franny Billingsley
Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness.… — Unknown Author
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan
...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced… — Christopher Hitchens
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity… — Marcel Proust
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of… — Fernando Pessoa
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to… — Fernando Pessoa
Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. — John Fowles
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which… — Marcel Proust
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has… — Karl Marx
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. — Ayn Rand
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. — Rumi
Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he… — Henri Nouwen
Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I… — Steven Erikson

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