Top 100 Quotes About Is An Illusion
#1. The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Sydney Smith
#2. The illusion of depth in a character is created simply by withholding information from an audience. A character will seem complex and intriguing only if we don't know the reasons why.
Eleanor Catton
#3. Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell
#4. As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time if you play the future, or you play that you know something that the audience does not know, it kills the illusion of reality.
Anthony Mackie
#5. The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.
Molly Friedenfeld
#6. What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.
Huey Newton
#7. The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.
Eleanor Clark
#8. Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.
Amit Kalantri
#9. Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Charles Addams
#10. For centuries, musicians have sought to find me at the end of a needle or the bottom of a drink. It is an illusion. And it often ends badly. Take
Mitch Albom
#11. Nevermore is more than an illusion child. It is very real.
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Jennifer Donnelly
#12. Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome.
Dawn Gluskin
#13. The past in an interpretation. The future is an illusion.
Elif Shafak
#14. Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you. An illusion is what needs all the bells and whistles to make itself appear grander than it really is, which is just a trick that can be explained.
Jeff Guinn
#15. Then he just blurted it out, with no preparation. 'The truth of it is that whether your mother arranged our marriage, or whether it was all an illusion, I must be horribly obtuse, because I can't talk myself out of being in love with you.
Eloisa James
#16. Freedom is an illusion of collective consciousness.
Toba Beta
#17. You only control 2 things in life: where you spend your heartbeats & the attitude in which you spend them. All else is an illusion.
James Andrew Beck
#18. There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang
#19. Remember that even though the dream may be an illusion, the dreaming is always real.
B.E. Scully
#20. Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.
Sorin Cerin
#21. If I know this, I ought to be able to escape the stupider kinds of illusion. The absolute nature of things is independent of my senses (which are all I have to perceive with), and what I perceive is an image of my own psyche.
Robertson Davies
#22. Happiness is just an illusion. And any attempt to achieve it is the ultimate cause of your plight
Katie Kacvinsky
#23. We live in a world with an ever-growing population. Personal space these days is at a premium. Physically, we are practically tripping over our fellow man. Mentally and spiritually, the divide among us seems to widen.
Carlos Wallace
#24. It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
John Coleman
#25. This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,
the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.
Frances Power Cobbe
#26. The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.
Gaston Bachelard
#27. Life is short, do not hesitate!
Enjoyed and lived Now because Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is only an illusion!
Ebelsain Villegas
#28. The wrong way to go about this is to say: Well, researchers have 'proved' that animals only understand fifty words or something similarly absurd. Or that communication with other species is an illusion. Communication is not the preserve of humans; it is the one thing that is truly universal.
Lawrence Anthony
#29. It is an illusion to worry about pride without having those things that may predispose someone to fall into the trap of pride...
Assegid Habtewold
#30. Ella let out a squeal when I picked her up, "Jonathan!"
I loved carrying her around in my arms. After all, modern man is just an illusion, we're all still cavemen. We just wear better clothes now.
R. Matthews
#31. The poor fool hadn't realized that if all mankind shares a folly or an illusion, and likes to share it even knowing what it is, then the illusion is much more valuable and fine a kind of thing than the ass who wants to upset it.
John Dickson Carr
#32. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.
David W. Earle
#33. Love is making friends with fear because fear is the constant companion of intimacy ~ and when you bring fear out of the darkness and into the light, you realize it was an illusion based on our own insecurities.
Allen L. Roland
#34. He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusion
a distraction
Jennifer DeLucy
#36. Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That's why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.
Kiese Laymon
#37. Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
Carla H. Krueger
#38. If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?
Lionel Suggs
#39. God is like an umbrella of illusion and belief,
In rainy days we use him, in sunny days we forget him.
Debasish Mridha
#40. The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#41. What is society but an individual? [ ... ] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
Osamu Dazai
#42. Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science ...
Mary Baker Eddy
#43. Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
Rumi
#44. Chaos is the true state of the universe anyway." "My universe was fairly orderly before all this." "It was only an illusion.
Julie Moffett
#45. Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is an illusion. We are all wandering shades.
Jenifer Mohammed
#47. It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion.
Harlan Coben
#48. It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
Susan Stebbing
#49. The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion
Donna J. Haraway
#50. Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.
David Blaine
#51. The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
Claude Bernard
#52. Perfection is an illusion fueled by the perception of others.
Alison G. Bailey
#53. The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.
Martin Gardner
#54. God is the greatest illusionist of all time. It happens in a moment and it fades in another, before your very eyes. Ultimately you lose consciousness of yourself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#55. The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.
Carl Jung
#56. I blame my generation for having neglected to teach our children that in life there are no safe places, that safety is an illusion. "Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark," Baldwin said in an interview in 1961.
Azar Nafisi
#57. A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.
Gianni Sarcone
#58. Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
Philip Treacy
#59. Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.
Albert Einstein
#60. When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.
Gary Zukav
#61. Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.
Edward Abbey
#62. "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
#63. Only the future matters, Sora. Guilt is an illusion, a way of lingering on the past. You can't change what happened." He held her eyes , carving himself into her mind. "You are alive. That is what you should worry about. Your thoughts can torture you - but not the dead. They've moved on.
T.L. Shreffler
#64. What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?
Marie Lu
#65. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist ... It's just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once that moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut
#67. 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
#68. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.
Susan Blackmore
#69. It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.
Satish Kumar
#70. It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.
Rachel Caine
#71. Good becomes perfect, but perfect is an illusion. And illusions are like all spells - temporary and soon broken. And when that happens, feelings change.
Erin McCahan
#72. A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs ... It is an illusion to think that States can hold on to their autonomy over taxation policies.
Hans Tietmeyer
#73. I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as a human being and keeping your humility is much more important than your music career. You can get money, women, travels, but all that's an illusion.
Juan Gabriel
#74. Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.
C.S. Lewis
#75. When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.
James Surowiecki
#76. The unity of a great era is generally an illusion.
Harold Bloom
#77. If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen.
George Orwell
#78. The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
Mike Norton
#79. Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#80. Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.
Fredric March
#82. What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#83. Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething.
Dean Koontz
#84. When they say that, 'God takes avatar (reincarnates)' is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels 'I did it'!
Dada Bhagwan
#85. Free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
Tamora Pierce
#86. If life is merely an illusion what can her truth be?
Sorin Cerin
#87. Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
Philip Treacy
#88. There is an alternative to simply identifying with the next thought that pops into consciousness. And glimpsing this alternative dispels the conventional illusion of the self.
Sam Harris
#89. All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.
Robert Breault
#90. Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control; you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.
Susan Meissner
#91. It always looks as if people had a choice, but that is an illusion. As long as your mind with its conditioned patterns runs your life, as long as you are your mind, what choice do you have?
Eckhart Tolle
#92. Perfection is an illusion which often prevents us from accepting the realities of life.
Sandeep Sharma
#93. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#94. 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
#95. The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Ang Lee
#96. The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
Zack Snyder
#97. Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
Arthur Goldberg
#98. It may seem like the dragons tormenting you are bigger and fiercer than those lurking in your neighbor's yard, but this is an illusion. We all face mighty dragons at home in some form.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#100. Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
Frederick Lenz
