Illusions Quotes

502 Illusions quotes by 369 unique authors

For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils,… — Anatole France
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis,… — Anais Nin
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be. I… — Cindy Gerard
When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free. — Lian Hearn
But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be… — Thomas Merton
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically… — Friedrich Nietzsche
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality. — Norton Juster
What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions… — MacDonald Harris
I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was… — Agatha Christie
Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and… — Marguerite Yourcenar
From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life… — Henry Miller
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams… — Karl Lagerfeld
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the… — Kevin Powers
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing… — Carl Jung
They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement. — William Golding
Crowds create illusions. — Rajneesh
Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them.… — George R. R. Martin
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to… — Carl Sagan
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. — Tim Ferriss
The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always… — Gustave Le Bon

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