Top 100 Quotes About Is An Illusion
#1. There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through the brain producing the outer sensory world of what is - an amazing complete mystery.
Barry Long
#2. The human mind is an illusion, so it does not exist even though it may seem to exist. However, the mind of God - the mind of the world - is the entity of Truth which actually exists although it has no form.
Woo Myung
#3. 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
#4. Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it's illusion... so how did you survive???
Deyth Banger
#5. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
#6. Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
Walter Darby Bannard
#7. I can't kill him and he can't keep me alive. The world we've lived in together is an illusion that can't be maintained. The edges are fraying, curling away to reveal the harsh reality beneath. The lion and the lamb do not lie down together. It just can't be.
Kitty Thomas
#8. Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.
Ludwig Von Mises
#10. None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.
Frederick Lenz
#11. Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.
Lolah Runda
#12. Money almost always ends up disappointing.
Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.
Lisa Bedrick
#13. Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.
Frederick Lenz
#14. I really like the topic about time is an Illusion and also this quote "#Time Physical things are merely the collapse of psychic things into physical reality." - it's powerful. As much you repeat it as much powerful it gets.
Deyth Banger
#15. Death IS an illusion. The body dies. The soul/spirit lives forever. YOU are the sum total of ALL you survey. Who would know you and not know your name? Kat Kaelin
Kat Kaelin
#16. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
Christina Baker Kline
#17. 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
#18. Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Eckhart Tolle
#19. 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
#20. I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness.
Edward Abbey
#21. Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
John Fowles
#22. All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.
John Trudell
#23. There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness ... We expect too much.
Joseph P. Farrell
#24. Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#25. Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
Peter Kreeft
#26. Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.
Tom Upton
#27. 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
#28. I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.
Daniel Kahneman
#29. What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.
Ayn Rand
#30. 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
#31. So, what if everything in life is an illusion? Well, choose your illusion; Don't let it choose you.
Dionne
#32. Destiny' is the state of perfect mechanical causation in which everything is the consequence of everything else. If choice is an illusion, what's life? Consciousness without volition. We'd all be passengers, no more real than model trains.
Nick Harkaway
#33. Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do.
Anna Quindlen
#34. When you've lived in a cage, you can't bear not to run, even if what you're running towards is an illusion.
Robert C. O'Brien
#35. Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.
Truth Devour
#36. 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
#37. Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
Anselm Kiefer
#38. To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#39. The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.
Susan Stewart
#40. Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.
Jaggi Vasudev
#41. Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.
Neal Stephenson
#42. Perfection is an illusion which often prevents us from accepting the realities of life.
Sandeep Sharma
#43. 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
#44. Fear is an illusion that you can destroy with the power of hope.
Ali Parker
#45. 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
#46. How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?
Sorin Cerin
#47. I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.
Dave Franco
#49. Romance is an illusion of love and excitement that touches our hearts and mind. It lingers in our memories like a fairy tale.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.
Frederick Lenz
#52. 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
#53. Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#54. Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.
Francesca Lia Block
#55. And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief.
Jewel
#56. The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
Iris Murdoch
#57. The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley
#58. What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.
Ruth Bernhard
#59. They had come to realize that the concept of matter is an illusion, for they now recognized that everything in the Universe is made out of energy. Quantum
Bruce H. Lipton
#60. None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
Margaret Cho
#63. The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there's a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies.
Margaret Atwood
#64. A man of wisdom knows that life is an illusion, so he lives a life of love and happiness as his mission.
Debasish Mridha
#65. If you live long enough, you learn time is an illusion created by men who fear death. The clocks and watches worshipped by those who deny the inevitable. There is power in acknowledging we are not the ones in control.
Amber Kizer
#66. We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
Daniel Gilbert
#67. Spain as a modern centralized nation is an illusion, a very unfortunate one; for the present atrophy, the desolating resultlessness of a century of revolution, may very well be due in large measure to the artificial imposition of centralized government on a land essentially centrifugal.
John Dos Passos
#68. When life moves you, move with it; do not place roadblocks of judgment or fear. Your fear and judgment are roadblocks on the easy path that life has chosen for you. Fear is an illusion and it is bondage. When you understand that all is good; you can live in Freedom.
Premlatha Rajkumar
#70. Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
Emilio Estevez
#72. Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
Ray Bradbury
#73. Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.
Alan Watts
#74. Please hear me, you are not alone on this planet hurtling through space, solitude is an illusion, come let me help you, rise up, walk forward, walk tall, walk straight, let nothing stop you.
Danny Scheinmann
#75. Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore
#78. After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.
Jessica Fortunato
#79. The notion that we read the New Testament exactly as the early Christians did, without any weight of tradition coloring our interpretation, is an illusion. It is also a dangerous illusion, for it tends to absolutize our interpretation, confusing it with the Word of God.
Justo L. Gonzalez
#80. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. Page 212.
Yann Martel
#82. The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality." W-155.2:1-2
MiraclesOne Foundation
#83. 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
#84. Though it may afford momentary psychological relief, it is an illusion which physiologically, surely, must not be without danger.
Viktor E. Frankl
#85. Love is an illusion, but I would willingly fall for it if I could believe in it.
Sylvia Plath
#86. Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death.
Amie Kaufman
#87. One can only have the illusion of honesty when not knowing his own identity. In this sense, moral is an illusion. It manifests only on those that have transposed such illusion.
Robin Sacredfire
#88. I am Chandubhai' is an illusion itself and from that are karmas charged. When does 'charging' of new karmas stop? When one attains the exact awareness of 'who I am?'.
Dada Bhagwan
#89. Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.
John Pugsley
#90. INFINITY is an illusion, we are just too lazy to count...
Andy Flynn
#91. 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
#92. What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.
Amit Kalantri
#93. Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don't die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond.
Deepak Chopra
#96. You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion.
George Harrison
#97. "The dream is real but it does not last" - This is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#98. Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
Josef Albers
#99. Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#100. What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.
Lothaire Bluteau
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