Illusions Quotes

502 Illusions quotes by 369 unique authors

My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack… — Marilyn Monroe
And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have… — Ernest Hemingway
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. — Edwin Way Teale
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its… — Philip Caputo
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so… — Unknown Author
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an… — Eckhart Tolle
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of… — Thomas Huxley
I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops. — Linda Evangelista
I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate… — Marco Tempest
Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions… — Howard Rheingold
My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job. — Unknown Author
I was fascinated with optical illusions. — Temple Grandin
It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men… — Emile Durkheim
Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying. — Wil S. Hylton
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me. — Yayoi Kusama
Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us… — Richard Dawkins
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated. — Robert Dallek
Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The victory was so… — Michael Ignatieff
There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that. — Hillary Clinton
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings… — Michael Hastings
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think… — Martin Seligman
When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could… — Doug Henning
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions. — Ellis Peters
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. — John Langdon

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