Illusion Quotes - Page 22

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.

"There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion.

"Nothing is as it seems" - This is an illusion.

The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

Illusion is the mantle of the Real

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

There's no point in clinging to illusions.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.

safety and love are both illusions!