Illusion Quotes - Page 21

Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.

I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in life is genuinely the day of work you have. It's not the name you're making for yourself or the clicks and likes - it's such an illusion.

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s.

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

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

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

Rocks are space, and space is illusion.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.