39 Quotes on Illusion

• Every forgotten dream is a stone unturned, cradling secrets of a thousand titles they were meant to wield.

  Author: Alex Reyes

• Love is the only reality; the rest is just an illusion.

  Author: John Lennon

• The greatest power lies in authenticity, for it speaks louder than any illusion.

  Author: Samantha Price

• Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

  Author: Timothy Zahn

• We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

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

  Author: Herman Wouk

• Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

  Author: Voltaire

• The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

  Author: Paul Schrader

• A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

  Author: Luigi Pirandello

• You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

  Author: Pope Paul II

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

  Author: Arnold Newman

• What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion, but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion.

  Author: A. Mojtabai

• Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

  Author: Andre Maurois

• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  Author: W. Maugham

• If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

  Author: Stanley Kubrick

• The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.

  Author: Ramman Kenoun

• There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.

  Author: Meir Kahane

• I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

  Author: Tom Hall

• The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

  Author: Philip Guston

• Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

  Author: Philip Guston

• The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

  Author: Horace Greeley

• How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

  Author: Judy Garland

• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

  Author: Jesse Eisenberg

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

  Author: Albert Einstein

• Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

  Author: David Cronenberg

• We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

  Author: Cyril Connolly

• If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

  Author: Noam Chomsky

• It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

  Author: Gabriel Byrne

• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  Author: Andre Breton

• It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

  Author: Pierre Bayle

• A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

  Author: Sai Baba

• There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.

  Author: Jane Asher

• They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

  Author: Mohammed al-Sahaf

• Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

  Author: Woody Allen

• What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

  Author: Woody Allen

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