Best 1021 quotes in «illusion quotes» category

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.

Nothing real stands between you and your happiness, only illusion and confusion.

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.

Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.

O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.

Originality is merely an illusion.

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!

Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

Saturday is an illusion.

Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

safety and love are both illusions!

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science.

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.