Illusion Quotes - Page 2

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.

Marie Lu

Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; nor ever stopped to think that the lore and those ways were the sole makers of their present thoughts and judgments, and the sole guides and standards in a meaningless universe without fixed aims or stable points of reference.

H.P. Lovecraft

Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses.

Debra Crown

How hard it is to kill hope! Time after time, one thinks one has trodden it down, stamped it to death. Time after time, like a noxious insect, it begins to stir again, it shivers back again into a faint tremulous life. Once more it worms its way into one's heart, to instil its poison, to gnaw away the solid hard foundations of life and leave in their place the hollow phantom of illusion.

Dorothy Bussy

They sell crap to buy you.

Toba Beta

Disappointment is the end of an illusion.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led was the only real life, and the one his friend led was a mere illusion.

Leo Tolstoy

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

D.H. Lawrence

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

Arthur Miller

Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.

Guy Gavriel Kay

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Bible

The more important one feels the greater the illusion is.

Steven Redhead

Work, the gospel of work, the sanctity of work, laborare est orare - all that tripe and nonsense. 'Work!' he once broke out contemptuously against the reasonable expostulations of Philip Quarles, 'work is no more respectable than alcohol, and it serves exactly the same purpose: it just distracts the mind, makes a man forget himself. Work's simply a drug, that's all. It's humiliating that men shouldn't be able to live without drugs, soberly; it's humiliating that they shouldn't have the courage to see the world and themselves as they really are. They must intoxicate themselves with work. It's stupid. The gospel of work's just a gospel of stupidity and funk. Work may be prayer; but it's also hiding one's head in the sand, it's also making such a din and a dust that a man can't hear himself speak or see his own hand before his face. It's hiding yourself from yourself. No wonder the Samuel Smileses and the big business men are such enthusiasts for work. Work gives them the comforting illusion of existing, even of being important. If they stopped working, they'd realize that they simply weren't there at all, most of them. Just holes in the air, that's all. Holes with perhaps a rather nasty smell in them. Most Smilesian souls must smell rather nasty, I should think. No wonder they daren't stop working. They might find out what they really are, or rather aren't. It's a risk they haven't the courage to take.

Aldous Huxley

she is an illusion... she can fake everything... you may feel she don't have emotions but may be she is the most emotional one...

shivangi lavaniya

In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.

Liu Cixin

Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again— words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!

Erich Maria Remarque

Sanity is an illusion. Created by the minds of people who fear the wicked.

Alexander Thol

The confusion created by mode of fictitious imagery, staged to produce a perceived idea of character or life, does only that - confuses.

Nicole Bonomi

[Schulz] came to see that the better part of his shyness was really vanity, or self-centeredness. "Shyness is an illusion," he would say, late in life. "If you get out and do something and talk to people, you don't have to be shy. Shyness is the overtly self-conscious thinking that you are the only person in the world; that how you look and what you do is of any importance.

David Michaelis

It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.

Kem Nunn

Light and air — what means wherewith to conjure up illusions and deceive the senses!

John C. Van Dyke

If everything is an illusion. To experiment is to find out what's real.

Matthew Donnelly

Many of us believe that when we give love , we are getting the love back but sometimes it's just an illusion of what we gave them ..

Akash B Chandran

Life, the universe and everything is a time illusion.Khalid Masood

Khalid Masood

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

James Rozoff

Ample figure, dazzling splendour to rest under the bed of soil; blooming dreams and withering numb; pangs of hunger, hitches of joy; dreadful pain, loudest laughter, piteous silence that echoes deep – were they all mere delusion? Yet, I wonder if they were real at least until I close these eyes! O dear! Did your own self deceive you?

Preeth Nambiar

Delusion is the greatest barrier of humanity..

Simran Shah Khan

Illusion is the greatest barrier of humanity..

Simran Shah Khan

I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining men, believe this and commit the most unspeakable crimes.

Isaiah Berlin

And nothing's wrong when nothing's trueBut I live in a hologram with you.

Lorde

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Benjamin Cardozo

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

Tahir Shah

My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.

Tahir Shah

How many minutes will still die in the swamp of your illusion of being human?

Sorin Cerin

Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?

Sorin Cerin

It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.

Michael J. Sullivan

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.

Stephanie Danler

It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.

Laini Taylor

Since then he had been walking with a ghost: the miserable ghost of his illusion. Only he had somehow vivified, coloured, substantiated it, by the force of his own great need – as a man might breathe a semblance of life into a dear drowned body that he cannot give up for dead.

Edith Wharton

It is pointless to try to make an illusion real

Sunday Adelaja

And what's care?What's coldness?Why you are so foolish of your freedom?...Merely an illusion... programmed.....

Deyth Banger

Stop living in the illusion that some ones anointing will help you rip from where you have not sown

Sunday Adelaja

Miracle focus gospel is creating an illusion in peoples head

Sunday Adelaja

Time may be a man-made illusion, but it was one that worked at one's inconvenience. When one is urging time to move forward, it will resist and move slowly. When one wants time to go by slower than need be, it goes by on a whim. The only instance where time is at a medium pace is when time isn't even acknowledged at all as an essence to everyday existence.

Lauren Lola

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltaire

I smile bitterly at him, then weave an illusion of his face across my own. Raffaele’s expression flickers in surprise for a moment before settling back into its pool of calm. “They may have a hard time finding me,” I reply.Raffaele gives me a tight smile in return. “Do not underestimate your enemies, Your Majesty,” he says.

Marie Lu

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

Marty Rubin

In reality nobody can grasp anything permanently in life. Absolutely nothing. Somethings may stay in memory for a while but eventually that too fades away.

Aditya Ajmera

Want something true?- I killed god... ...Hahaha, look your face... you started believing me... whaterver to be honest god is the world best Illusion in this world "Matrix".

Deyth Banger

GHOSTS IN THE MINDThere are no ghosts among the livingThe only real ghosts exist in our mindsSo fear not the dead but the livingBecause the living can harm but not their ghostHave you ever seen a dead man risen?Don’t you see that nobody comes from the grave? It’s because the dead are nice to each otherEven the vilest repent, and are kind to their neighborsEach one content with the land of their lying

Dauglas Dauglas

What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?

Marie Lu

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

Sara Gruen

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

Judy Garland

You said you were a fairy princessYou said you were a shooting starYou said we'd go to Bora BoraNow look at where the fuck we are

Jennifer Egan

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

That's when I saw you, really saw you for the first time. I didn't intend to look at you, it just happened. It was like those pictures, you know, those optical illusions. You can gaze at them forever and see only one thing. Then when you relax your eyes for just a moment, another picture magically appears. The funny thing with that kind of visual trick it that it's really hard to go back to seeing the original picture once you've seen the new one.

Kimberly Sabatini

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

Hugh Howey

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

Janny Wurts

Don't talk to strangers. Don't do drugs. Don't smoke. Don't drink and drive. Don't have sex. Wear a condom. Wear sunblock. Wear a seat belt. Wear a helmet. If you see something, say something. Just say no. Stop, drop, and roll. Stop, look, and listen. Look both ways before you cross the street...Safety is an illusion. Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not. You can check left, check right, check left again before you step off the curb and into the crosswalk, but that won't stop an anonymous asshole in his shitty pickup from putting you in intensive care...

Megan McCafferty

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