Reality Or Illusion Quotes

#1. There is no fact or fiction, reality or illusion, there is only the trick of perception.

Debasish Mridha

#2. 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

#3. There is no truth beyond illusion ... between 'reality' on the one hand, and the point where reality comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and magic.

Donna Tartt

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

N. F. Simpson

#5. Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.

Kate McGahan

#6. The novelist uses facts to create a fiction about life. The pornographer uses sexual reality to create sexual illusion.

Marty Rubin

#7. For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality

Sanal Edamaruku

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

Jean Cocteau

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

E'yen A. Gardner

#10. Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.

Harold Percival

#11. The girls here are so young. One of them twines her fingers into mine, her hand so small I could crush it. There are more of them in the ballroom, standing well outside the pools of light that demarcate the dancing from the sitting, the illusion from the reality.

Karen Kao

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

Lobsang Rampa

#13. Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

Allan Lokos

#14. 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

#15. If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. 'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.

Edward Robert Harrison

#17. 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

#18. General belief is "There is no real magic, only tricks" but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".

Amit Kalantri

#19. Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

Gautama Buddha

#21. The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany ... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

Mircea Eliade

#22. When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

James Woods

#23. Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.

Squeak Carnwath

#24. It had been, in other words, our family home, and I had stayed to watch it become the grave of something I could no longer definitively call either a reality or an illusion.

Rachel Cusk

#25. What is drama, and what is dharma? I guess you could say drama is illusion that acts like truth, and dharma is truth itself - the way things are, the basic state of reality that does not change from day to day according to fashion or our mood or agenda.

Ponlop Rinpoche, Dzogchen

#26. On a subatomic level, it is not possible to determine where anything begins or ends, because there is no true separation of individual energy despite the illusions of the physical realities.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#27. Never deny yourself any pleasure, real or imaginary.

Marty Rubin

#28. The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

Kurt Vonnegut

#29. It is not a case of you being inferior when you bow at your Dom's feet. The reality is your Dom only has the illusion of power. You are the one in control. You decide how far the scene will go. It is your gift to him or her.

Red Phoenix

#30. Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londoner, is that it's better not to die at all.

Ben Aaronovitch

#31. Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.

Michel Foucault

#32. We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

Stephen Covey

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

Saurabh Mathur

#34. Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Publilius Syrus

#35. It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality.

Lionel Suggs

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

Lionel Suggs

#37. Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

Tariq Ramadan

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

Gary Keller

#39. Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation ...

Northrop Frye

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

Steven Pinker

#41. Everyone is the creator of their own perceived illusion of reality.

Steven Redhead

#42. Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality.

Debasish Mridha

#43. The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

Jim Steinmeyer

#44. There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

Louis Aragon

#45. Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Nicolas Chamfort

#46. Psychoanalysis is a new version of the ancient theme shared by all the great religions. The loss of illusion, the giving up of attachment to a false reality, the inevitability of suffering and expiation are all present in psychoanalysis. Every person who seeks analysis is on a personal pilgrimage.

Margaret Arden

#47. 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

#48. I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Parker Palmer

#49. In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation ... the essence of minstrel.

John Trudell

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#55. Sometimes it's hard to seperate illusion from reality because you have to use one to obtain the other. And even though you know the difference between the truth and a lie, there are moments when it's best to pretend, even to yourself.

Books

#56. 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

#57. Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call "reality". However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

Masashi Kishimoto

#58. Be careful not to lose yourself in a world you have created with magic, for it is in our own imagination that reality can sometimes become the illusion. ~ Drakondia ~ Sleeping Sands

C.A. King

#59. There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

Agnes Repplier

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. Swinging back and forth
deeply stuck
in tranced forbidden dream
Wanting not to recognize
fantasy
is purely scheme
Elaborate facade
of lust
into reality
Transferring thoughts
of illusion
will be fatality

Zuky Rose Leigh

#63. Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

Ian Gardner

#64. We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.

Bill Moyers

#65. The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.

Anthony Liccione

#66. The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.

Max Beckmann

#67. 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

#68. An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

Erich Fromm

#69. That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

H.P. Lovecraft

#70. Reality is a perceptual illusion we have accepted as truth.

Debasish Mridha