Illusion Quotes

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

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

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

To me, Batman is definitely 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.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.

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