Top 100 Quotes About Illusion
#1. Safety is an illusion, as is faith without temptation. We're imperfect, unlike the gods, but in that imperfection we may yet make them jealous.
Ken Liu
#2. Ari believed we are all a simulation. Matter is an illusion. Everything is silicon. He could be right. But your emotions? They're solid.
Matt Haig
#3. A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.
Roy DeCarava
#4. Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.
Yasmin Mogahed
#5. It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.
Elie Wiesel
#6. Dear Maya,
Life is an illusion.
And as it turns out, so is death.
What is real?
What remains when we all fade away?
Two things: Love. Forgiveness.
Don't forget
Cathy Ostlere
#7. It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.
Tarun J. Tejpal
#8. Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.
Sheila Ballantyne
#9. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
#10. Spectacle is grounded in the illusion of control.
Kirsty Logan
#11. Life is an illusion because we still don't know what reality is.
Debasish Mridha
#12. When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
Walter Darby Bannard
#13. Up close, she could see the sharp, cold, look that she constantly shot at Mr. Treviso, particularly when there was a break, and she was waiting to come in. It shattered illusion for Mildred. She preferred to remain at a distance, to enjoy this child as she seemed, rather than as she was.
James M. Cain
#14. Free will is an illusion. Humans are nothing but moist robots.
Scott Adams
#15. I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.
Priscilla Presley
#16. I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.
Nicole Krauss
#17. He was saner than anyone --had fallen out of the world of illusion: love, interesting work, hope for the future.
John Gardner
#18. Privacy seems not an illusion for those
who want to believe in secrecy principle.
Toba Beta
#19. To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) - this is the perpetual illusion of morality.
Giorgio Agamben
#20. It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.
Haruki Murakami
#21. Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
Milan Kundera
#22. Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real ... and an illusion at the same time.
Masamune Shirow
#23. What was reality? An objective truth? A collective illusion? A majority opinion? The product of historical understanding? A bream?
Matt Haig
#24. An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality.
Akiane Kramarik
#25. Impossible means nothing to me. It's an illusion designed to weed out the weak from the strong.
Stephanie Rowe
#26. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#27. 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
#28. Simply put, the relative age of a philosophical perspective has nothing to do with its veracity. It is pure illusion to imagine that just because a view of life was held and put to words long ago, that it is more valid.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#29. Free will is an illusion, my father answers and his words his words his words are so dark.
Courtney Cole
#30. Perfect is an illusion, one that was created to maintain the status quo. The Six Sigma charade is largely about hiding from change, because change is never perfect. Change means reinvention, and until something is reinvented, we have no idea what the spec is.
Seth Godin
#31. Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.
Debbie Ford
#32. Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.
Ashley Olsen
#33. Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
Anais Nin
#34. Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion.
Sunny John
#36. Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.
Deepak Chopra
#37. It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#38. If everything is an illusion. To experiment is to find out what's real.
Matthew Donnelly
#39. Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.
W.C. Fields
#40. "There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#41. All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".
Barbara Brennan
#42. film is and has always been just a subset of animation - in contrast to how critics presented the relation - if animation is understood to be the inputting of life, or the inputting of the illusion of life, into that which is flat or inert or a model or an image.
Karen Beckman
#43. What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.
Frederick Lenz
#44. This is what selfishness does: it fills you with the illusion of separation
Dimitris Mamakos
#45. Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#46. Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.
Sharon Salzberg
#47. Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.
Robert Fisk
#48. Do not fall for the illusion that by preventing errors, you won't have errors to fix. The truth is, the cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.
Ed Catmull
#49. Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
Arthur Nersesian
#50. The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.
Shirley Maclaine
#51. Could my proud loneliness be merely an illusion?
Nicola Lecca
#52. Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.
Luke Rhinehart
#53. We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.
RuPaul
#54. Just as a primitive sextant functions on the illusion that the sun and stars rotate around the planet we are standing on, our senses give us the illusion of stability in the universe, and we accept it, because without that acceptance, nothing can be done. Virginia
Richard K. Morgan
#55. What greater fetter to anchoring ourselves to the false notion of self could there be than a selfie? It is named after an illusion!
Chris Matakas
#56. Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.
Al Gore
#57. One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.
Alan Cohen
#58. Freedom is an illusion. Try walking along the road with long hair and it won't be long before a sheriff pulls up asking questions.
Shaman Elizabeth Herrera
#59. When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
William Greider
#60. Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
Pema Chodron
#61. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
Albert Einstein
#62. As a lamp, a cataract, a star in space
an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble
a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning
view all created things like this.
Red Pine
#63. You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.
L. Ron Hubbard
#64. Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.
Conor McGregor
#65. Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.
John C. Reilly
#68. An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.
Janny Wurts
#69. What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
Max Jacob
#70. I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
Roger Daltrey
#71. Illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all." Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside
John Green
#72. In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusion provided to engage and excite us
Brandon Sanderson
#73. The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
Laura Anne Gilman
#74. No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Sigmund Freud
#75. He saw the Queen and saw her for the first time with the mask of friendship removed, a figure suddenly as ruthless and terrible as ever her father had been ... All their dazzling intimacy was an illusion, a mere straw in the wind, for in the last resort he was but a subject, as her mother had been.
Susan Kay
#76. I've always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We're all made of the same thing - the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.
Blake Crouch
#77. To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.
William Friedkin
#78. I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.
Amish Tripathi
#80. 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
#81. Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.
Ben Parr
#82. I like carrying you. It gives me the illusion that you'll let me take care of you.
Nina Croft
#83. Our life here was just a momentary illusion, and someday reality would yank us back to the world we came from.
Haruki Murakami
#84. Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Henrik Ibsen
#85. I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Chuck Sigars
#86. Ruling Akaran is a strange task. In many ways, it is like balancing an illusion. You must separate the illusion of what you see and the reality of its consequences," he said. "Tell me, my queen, are you ready to play with fate?
Roshani Chokshi
#87. As he left, he saw the streets were just as deserted and quiet as before, but now he knew it was an illusion. There were ninjas, darker than a starless night, watching their territory and his every move from the rooftops high above.
Anam Iqbal
#88. I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
H.G.Wells
#89. Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice.
David Alejandro Fearnhead
#90. 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
#91. Dawn crept up out of the trees, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he'd spent the night trying to comprehend. But what would daylight offer except the illusion of understanding? At least in darkness you were spared the pretending.
Tom Franklin
#92. Crush is only an illusion of love, u creates in your mind..
BHARAT SHARMA
#93. Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
Georges Braque
#94. There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion...
Virginia Alison
#95. Days are only beautiful early in the morning. I should have remembered that. Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. When the world opens its eyes, reality reasserts itself, and you're back with the same old shit.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#96. The illusion of the internet was the idea that the opinions of powerless people, freely offered, had some impact on the world. This was, of course, total bullshit.
Jarett Kobek
#97. A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.
Sigmund Freud
#99. Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.
Robert Heinecken
#100. A real stunner. Want to get swept up on a journey you will never forget and never quite escape? Open THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION and let its magic leap out, grab you, take you places unlike you have ever known.
Whitley Strieber
