Illusion Quotes - Page 5

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.

If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.