Illusion Quotes

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish I wish he'd stay away.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Christoph Martin-Wieland

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

Field Marshall Lord Wavell

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

George Santayana

Aspects are within us and who seems most kingly is king.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Australian Aboriginal proverb

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved.

W Somerset Maugham

Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What's not there is.

Cameron Conaway

...people live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true... that is how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts... their reality may all be an illusion.

Kishimoto Masashi Uchiha Itachi - chapter 385

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

Lauren DeStefano

Death is merely an illusion of the departed... Just because you cannot physically see the idea of God, doesn't mean that he or she isn't there. Just because you cannot physically see someone that isn't here, doesn't mean that they aren't there.

Was it just fear? the voices wonder. We were fearful in the best of times; how could we cope with the worst? So we found the tallest walls and poured ourselves behind them. We kept pouring until we were biggest and strongest, elected the greatest generals and found the most weapons, thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness. But nothing so obvious could ever work.

He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married because their sexual appetite had to be satisfied and there must be somebody to manage the house. There was nothing deeper than that in any man and woman relationship.

Whoever thirst for money is real victim of a capital illusion.

Toba Beta

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

Tom Holt

People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.

It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.

Looking aroundthere is nothing but illusionEverything is drownedin the oceans of illusion

- I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn't seem real to me.- How does it seem?- It seems like an illusion that nobody notices.

Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.

John Meade Falkner

A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet's penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.

William Shakespeare

It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.

Venugopal Gupta

Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully.

Samantha reminds me of the difference between what is illusion and what is real. I am reminded whenever I forget that we choose our truth and whether to embrace it or not.

They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.

Andrew Holleran

My life is exactly what it's meant to be, and I'm okay. I'm. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot to me. I'm not perfect, I'm not completely healed, but I'm okay. I'll take it.

You're absolutely insane, that much I'm certain of, but it's one of the many things I love about you.

I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.

Life is short, do not hesitate!Enjoyed and lived Now because Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is only an illusion!

Ebelsain Villegas

We live in an illusion of safety while we hide in caves made of glass looking for trees of concrete. Even our music resounds with the drums of the past.

J.B.Alves

The Didots created happiness and power, or in this case, pain and sadness...but only within its subject’s mind.tThe power it held was real, but it was not a physical power. It was the power of persuasion, the power of illusion.tMr. Bradshaw was a genius.

Embee

What Albert Einstein termed optical delusion,The Indians termed Maya or Illusion.

Break an Illusion, and you open the eyes of the intelligent.

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To lose weight, spend time at the gym. To appear like you’ve lost weight, spend time with people who are bigger than you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Twitter gives people an illusionary sense of leadership.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are made. When you're staying at the Plaza with your beautiful wife, doesn't it make sense to order the best Scotch that money can buy before you go to the theater in your private limousine?

A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is an illusion that money brings happiness

People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.

Soroosh Shahrivar

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see.

Perhaps the word perfect is just an illusion isn't it ?

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.

Liezi

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

Nothing causes more people to deny God, misunderstand God, mistreat others, or abuse Nature more than the illusion of separateness. Nothing. No thing.

Donald L. Hicks

Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present – and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory.

Until you really loving, kind, caring, and compassionate, happiness will be an illusion to you.

Debasish Mridha

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