Top 100 Quotes About Life Illusions
#1. He will show you how, during the springtime of life, illusions, innocent hopes, silver threads of gossamer, descend from heaven and return there without ever touching the earth.
Honore De Balzac
#2. Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.
Hector Berlioz
#3. There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible.
Nicole Krauss
#4. The restoration of man's inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age - unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one's realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.
Josef Pieper
#5. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
#6. No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you've ever imagined. That's what being mindful and living in the present means.
Lidiya K.
#7. 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
#8. Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
Chuck Jones
#9. Each person has a self-image that, to some degree, does not match reality. A significant difference between self-image and reality can be harmful. The more self-aware you are, the less likely you are to be vulnerable to your illusions. The more aware you are, the more you can do with your life.
Robert H. Bolton
#10. The neurotic opts out of life because he is having trouble maintaining his illusions about it, which proves nothing less than that life is possible only with illusions.
Ernest Becker
#12. As a Sufi I had sworn to protect life and do no harm. In this world of illusions, so many people were readt ti fight without any reason, and so many others fought for a reason. But the Sufi was the one who wouldn't fight even if he had a reason.
Elif Shafak
#13. It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.
Anton Chekhov
#14. Maybe the truth doesn't exist if you look the other way.
Shannon Mullen
#15. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.
Edward Albee
#16. It's only our faith in illusions that makes life possible...It's believing in reality that does us in every time.
Richard Flanagan
#17. As you grow up, and you'll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer to fall away. The great hope is eventually to find a delusion that will outlast your life.
Benjamin Kunkel
#18. I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.
Goldie Hawn
#19. Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life.
Joseph Conrad
#20. In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
Frederick Lenz
#21. When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions.
Terry Pratchett
#22. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
Anthony De Mello
#23. Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.
-Alma Mavis Taraza
Frank Herbert
#24. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.
Steve Jobs
#25. Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#26. The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.
Tomas Borge
#27. I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
Jason Alexander
#28. In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#29. Mindfulness can serve as an antidote to living a fragmental life riven with deleterious delusions and illusions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#30. I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity
and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.
Erich Fromm
#31. Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.
Bryant McGill
#32. I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
Taylor Caldwell
#33. Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.
Rana Dasgupta
#34. Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.
Mike Dickenson
#35. The biggest trap in life consists in achieving illusions after years of hard work and realize that there's nothing there but an empty you.
Robin Sacredfire
#36. War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.
Francesca Lia Block
#37. As adults we get so entrapped in illusions and trivia, that we forget the true essence of life; and so often we need to connect with children, to understand that it is the little, priceless joys that make life beautiful and worthy.
Manprit Kaur
#38. I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
Jeanette Winterson
#39. We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
PZ Myers
#40. Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.
Mary Baker Eddy
#41. Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage - strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its illusions, and what is there real in either to live or care for?
Charles Dickens
#42. There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.
T.F. Hodge
#43. The truth of who we are dissolves the illusions when they arise, simply by us not buying into them anymore. By realizing they were counterfeit bliss. By and by, oneness dissolves what was once separation.
Tehya Sky
#44. That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
Eugene H. Peterson
#45. If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.
Amit Kalantri
#46. Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#47. The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.
Nina LaCour
#48. Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.
Andre Luiz Moreira
#49. Maybe, the lesson we can all learn from the inner sadness of a Narcissist is to see through our own fabrications, our own illusions so that we can be set free to be real once more.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#51. Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.
Frederick Lenz
#53. To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.
Sherwood Anderson
#54. What she can't get into her narrow mind is that we're above such things as love. Our whole aim - the whole sense of our life - is to avoid petty illusions that stop us being free and happy. On, on, on!
Anton Chekhov
#55. All knowledge pushed to its limit can be dangerous, and morbid, because life is endurable solely because we don't see it through to the end. An undertaking is only possible if we have conserved a minimum of illusions. Complete lucidity is the void!
Emil Cioran
#56. Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.
Nicole Lyons
#57. Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are costly only when lost.
Wislawa Szymborska
#58. In 2008, I was the woman who thought she had the world by the tail: the "perfect life."
In 2010, I was the woman without hope who thought she had no life left to live.
Which woman am I today? Neither. Both were illusions.
Julie-Anne
#59. The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#60. When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl
Marguerite Young
#61. In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#62. The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.
John Irving
#64. What we call "imperfections" are illusions caused by expectation. They are a psychological warning that we are not seeing true potential, but self- imposed limitation.
Steve Maraboli
#65. Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
Hector Hugh Munro
#66. Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
Elbert Hubbard
#67. The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.
Esther Hicks
#68. She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.
Hunter S. Thompson
#69. Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#70. You're learning. So why don't we stop pretending? It's so much easier when you give up all those illusions and realize that the only justice you'll get in this life is the justice you dish out. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, mate. You need to sharpen your teeth. Don't get angry. Get even.
Barry Jonsberg
#71. Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#72. He'd been back for about two weeks, and everything in Laurel's life had been thrown into Chaos. Sexy, sexy chaos.
Aprilynne Pike
#73. Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos ... To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality
Sherif A. El-Mawardy
#74. I have no illusions about myself, about my life, about leaving a legacy, or making a mark in people's lives. We are so insignificant. We are only here for a blink.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#75. As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
Roberto Bolano
#76. Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#77. Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Joseph Conrad
#78. Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.
Caroline Myss
#79. Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
Robert E. Howard
#80. It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all
Joni Mitchell
#81. One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your hear that every day is the best day of the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#82. Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain.
James Rozoff
#83. The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.
Paul Kurtz
#84. Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
Cat Stevens
#85. As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.
John Irving
#86. Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.
Allan Bloom
#87. A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#88. Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.
Matthew Fox
#89. The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
Sigmund Freud
#90. Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
Kate Chopin
#91. Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world means you have started seeing life with utmost clarity. There are no more illusions about it. You see everything just the way it is.
Jaggi Vasudev
#92. Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.
Harmony Korine
#93. Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#94. Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#95. The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
Antonio Gramsci
#96. I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings to life - are hard illusions to shake off. Look at me, a war correspondent.
Michael Hastings
#98. Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
J.G. Ballard
#100. Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
Tim O'Brien
