Illusion Quotes - Page 18

If there’s one thing I’ve learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.

You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

I have earned my disillusionment.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense.

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

What I've never wanted to do was allow myself to be put in a box, so I've tried to do a lot of different things so this is a step in trying to do something different so we'll see how it goes. I'm under no illusions that this is slam-dunk. I did the best I could and that's all I can rely on.

As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.

I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories