Best 1021 quotes in «illusion quotes» category

A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.

An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.

And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it.

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

A woman should be an illusion

Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Barack Obama's class has always been an illusion clouded in faculty lounge, lizard lounge talk, and Michelle Obama's class has actually been told us by the media that it exists, but there isn't any. There isn't anything that's real. Everything on the left is a fraud. Everything on the left is a lie.

But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.

Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.