Illusion Quotes - Page 16

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control, there is only consent!

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

The novels that attract me most are those that create an illusion of transparency around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel, and perverse as possible.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

All is but illusion and disaster.

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

The art of illusion is grace itself.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.