Illusion Quotes - Page 11

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

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

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Most fears are just illusions.

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.

When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

Engaging each moment without reservation cuts through the illusion that things could be other than they are.

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

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

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.