Reality Is An Illusion Quotes

#1. Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

N. F. Simpson

#2. Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.

W.C. Fields

#3. We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe ... Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

Albert Einstein

#4. Ours is an immutable reality which should make you shudder when you approach us if you are really conscious of the fact that your reality is a mere transitory and fleeting illusion, taking this form today and that tomorrow,

Luigi Pirandello

#5. is satisfying, not frightening, not empty. It is an illusion of reality created by ignorance that is so unbearable. The illusion of separateness, the illusion of connectedness to disconnected hardened hearts and closed minds is the source of the suffering that we would all wish to be free of.

Mitch Halper

#6. Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Herman Wouk

#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. Control is merely an illusion we construct to cope with the chaos that is reality.

Fred Bubbers

#9. 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

#10. People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger.

Suzy Kassem

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Based upon quantum mechanics, our physical reality should not be solid. Most likely our physical reality is an elaborate illusion within our own consciousness and the collective consciousness of the Universe/God.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#14. 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

#15. Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

#16. What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Ruth Bernhard

#17. Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.

Zeena Schreck

#18. It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Mary Antin

#19. Life is an illusion because we still don't know what reality is.

Debasish Mridha

#20. What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Max Jacob

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Salvador Dali

#24. 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

#25. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

#26. Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.

Lobsang Rampa

#27. Tom hunts alone. While shunned by all he sees, he grows aware that, in reality, life is lived alone. When with a hen, there's only an illusion of sharing; a pretence that life's trials are easier to endure. Even sleep is a barrier that can't be shared.

Peter Gray

#28. 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

#29. There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

Dada Vaswani

#30. Nowledge which ... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.

Ernest Gellner

#31. Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Steven Pinker

#32. Juggling is an illusion ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession ... It is actually task switching.

Gary Keller

#33. Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Arnold Newman

#34. The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#35. 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

#36. Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.

Adyashanti

#37. 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

#38. Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

Karen Traviss

#39. Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.

E'yen A. Gardner

#40. I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Jean Cocteau

#41. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

Edward Sapir

#42. If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?

Lionel Suggs

#43. Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

Rumi

#44. If you don't believe in time, your day will be longer (because reality time is an illusion, it exist only because of us and if we don't exist time doesn't exist!?)

Deyth Banger

#45. The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Donna J. Haraway

#46. Life is an illusion of the reality which we want or wish

Saurabh Mathur

#47. Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.

Kasie West

#48. One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

Stuart Pearson Wright