Illusion Quotes - Page 13

It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.

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.

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

I have no illusions about my filmmaking work but I must add I have no illusions about anybody else's either. I am very strict with myself and I think, "no, that could have been improved", "why didn't I put a little bit more then? Why didn't we come out then?" It was what I thought was right at the time and you have to stand by that. And if it completely fails you have got to say, "But that is what I meant at the time.".

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality

When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.

The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.