Illusions Quotes

502 Illusions quotes by 369 unique authors

We're all travelling heavy with illusions. — Sherman Alexie
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair,… — Evelyn Waugh
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. — Emile Zola
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless… — Sarah Dessen
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to… — Tom Robbins
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or… — Jack Kornfield
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion. — Ram Dass
My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work… — Noel Coward
The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't… — Willa Cather
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that… — Kurt Vonnegut
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are… — Sigmund Freud
Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read… — Nizar Qabbani
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. — Virginia Woolf
Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We create the illusions we need to go on. — Libba Bray
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his… — Michel Faber
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful… — Sigmund Freud
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you -… — Rajneesh
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and… — W. Somerset Maugham
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. — Virginia Woolf
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally… — Noam Chomsky
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions. — Eckhart Tolle
All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the… — Henri Barbusse

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