Illusion Quotes

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.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

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.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

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.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

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

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.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

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

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

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

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.

To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

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

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

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

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.