Illusion Of Happiness Quotes

#1. Sometimes the illusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.

Jojo Moyes

#2. When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.

Deepak Chopra

#3. When my words are concealed
With lies and disguises, truth and beyond
Insecurities in the veil of trust
Betrayal in bounds of lies
It's just the charm of words darling
Giving the illusion of happiness inside misery

Irum Zahra

#4. We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

Sam Keen

#5. We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#6. Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change.

Debasish Mridha

#8. When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession.

Debasish Mridha

#9. The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

Gaston Bachelard

#10. A man of wisdom knows that life is an illusion, so he lives a life of love and happiness as his mission.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Do not fall into the terrible trap of thinking that life depends on money and that, in comparison with money, anything else is devoid of value or dignity. This is nothing but an illusion! We cannot take money with us into the life beyond. Money does not bring us happiness.

Pope Francis

#12. All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#13. Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#14. I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties
or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.

Silver RavenWolf

#15. You wish to be free, but there is no such thing as freedom. You can redecorate dungeon to give illusion of freedom, but you are still in dungeon." "I should've had the choice." "Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.

Carolyn Crane

#16. Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Henrik Ibsen

#17. Love is the illusion you get in the mids of infatuation and happiness.

Tia Clark

#18. It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.

Hermann Hesse

#19. The facility of the entrance into another world is an illusion: you start writing in a rush, anticipating the happiness of a future reading, and the void yawns on the white page.

Italo Calvino

#20. True happiness is devoid of any illusion.

Dada Bhagwan

#21. Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.

J.M. Bernstein

#22. The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.

Molly Friedenfeld

#23. I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Parker Palmer

#24. Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Nicolas Chamfort

#25. If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

B.F. Skinner

#26. Happiness is just an illusion. And any attempt to achieve it is the ultimate cause of your plight

Katie Kacvinsky

#27. Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

Colum McCann

#28. Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist."
"Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad."
"That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.

Lee Goldberg

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

Lionel Suggs

#30. Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal.

Debasish Mridha

#31. God is like an umbrella of illusion and belief,
In rainy days we use him, in sunny days we forget him.

Debasish Mridha

#32. Happiness is a color that you can never run out of. You can paint a picture or an illusion with happiness. It's a color that you always pick, before actually choosing a color.

Lionel Suggs

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

Embee

#34. He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

William Golding

#35. "Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

Satish Kumar

#36. Happiness is as fragile and fleeting as a bubble soap. Water down the last dregs of happiness and turn them into bubbles to fill the void. It may nothing more than an illusion, but it was still better than the emptiness.

Kanae Minato