Illusion famous quotes
07-15-2025
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But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.
-- Aimee Carter -
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
-- Al Goldstein -
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
-- Al Pacino -
These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.
-- Alanis Morissette -
It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
-- Albert Camus -
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
-- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu -
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
-- Allan Bloom -
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
-- Andre Maurois -
I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously
-- Andy Kaufman -
The material world may be nothing but illusion...
-- Anodea Judith -
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
-- Anton Chekhov -
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
-- Antonin Scalia -
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
-- Antonio Machado -
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.
-- Aprilynne Pike -
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
-- Arthur Helps -
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.
-- Asger Jorn -
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
-- Auguste Comte -
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
-- B. F. Skinner -
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
-- Billy Joel -
All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.
-- Bob Dylan -
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
-- Brad Bird -
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
-- Brent Weeks -
If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
-- Brian Andreas -
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.â€5
-- Brian Greene -
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
-- Carlos Santana -
Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.
-- Carolyn Crane -
The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.
-- Charles Derber -
The Charlie Manson that you've created, that's not me. That's only an illusion in your minds, it hasn't got anything to do with me.
-- Charles Manson -
However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words.
-- Che Guevara -
An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.
-- Christmas Humphreys -
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland -
It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.
-- Christopher Paolini -
What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.
-- Christopher Pike -
Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.
-- Christopher Pike -
Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.
-- Chuck Close -
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
-- Chuck Jones -
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion
-- Coco Chanel -
Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
-- Colum McCann -
Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.
-- Conor McGregor -
We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner -
Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.
-- Courtney Summers -
Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?
-- Criss Angel -
Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin -
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
-- David Blaine -
The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
-- David Copperfield -
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
-- David Copperfield -
That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)
-- David Gilmour -
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
-- David I. Rozenberg -
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
-- David Icke -
When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.
-- Deepak Chopra -
What does not contain love must contain an illusion.
-- Deepak Chopra -
If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.
-- Diane Lane -
Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.
-- Donna J. Haraway -
Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.
-- Donna Karan -
Everything is already healed, except in the dream of illness. Let the illusion go, in exchange for peace.
-- Doreen Virtue -
Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
-- Edith Wharton -
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
-- Edward Albee -
Bright and illustrious illusions!
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
-- Edwin Way Teale -
The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.
-- Eleanor Clark -
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
-- Elie Wiesel -
If there’s one thing I’ve learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.
-- Elizabeth Reyes -
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
-- Ella Maillart -
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
-- Ellis Peters -
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
-- Emile Zola -
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
-- Emilio Estevez -
The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.
-- Erich Segal -
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
-- Erwin McManus -
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'
-- Gabriel Byrne -
I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.
-- Gabrielle Bernstein -
I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
-- Gary Numan -
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
-- George Eliot -
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.
-- George Jean Nathan -
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
-- George Orwell -
The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.
-- Georges Bernanos -
Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore
-- Gianfranco Fini
