Illusion Quotes

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.

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

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.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

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.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

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.

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

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

A woman should be an illusion.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

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.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

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

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.