Quotes and Sayings About Illusion
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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
