Illusion Quotations

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.

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.'

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

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

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they're going to be with is going to be perfect. Nobody's going to be perfect, and people are going to let you down. The only thing that you can hope for is someone that's going to be honest with you.

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

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

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

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's just an illusion that one has control over one's life.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion?

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

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

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

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.

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

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

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

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.

Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning! This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning!

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. Is it all this the shield of this vanity called dream of our life or Illusion of Life?

Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.

I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?

I don't know what the situation is with the Australian team but they seem pretty settled. In the same way that there were plenty saying last summer that they did not want to be in the side that loses the Ashes, there'll be more wanting to be in the team that regains them. We are under no illusion about how determined Australia will be.

Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.

My illusion is dispelled by Your profound words, that You spoke out of compassion towards me, about the supreme secret of the Self.

Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion.

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

She was doomed, she was flooding and she was going down, but she had reached a point where there was an illusion that she would float a longer period. People were inside, not panicked, and suddenly the hull cracked.

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Harriet Nowell created the illusion of a hoop skirt by the types and placement of the fabric in her design.

I am rid of the illusion of the three-phased Maya, when God becomes my help and support.

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.

If it was a truly independent board, I'd be happier about it. As it is now, it creates the illusion that both parties in the state are of equal strength and that's not the case.

We're now at that point where the graphics are good enough to preserve the illusion and make you feel more immersed in the environment,

I have starred in the endless sky, where only clouds can run free, understanding that if will go beyond those clouds, if I conquer the entire universe I will conquer NOTHING, because this is a lie too, as big as I am, a mere Illusion of my Life or other bloody illusions of the lives of other that loose themselves in their reflection in other destinies giving birth to the historical evolution of this lie and with it to the holy book of the spirituality of peoples, in fact the holy book of the spirituality of illusions that were once reflected as images, just like flashes in the Great Void-Being.

If the international community tries to create the illusion that Serbia is conforming with demands ... we won't be able to tolerate it for long.

The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living a fantasy. You can't give everybody the best of both worlds in a low-cost environment.

He may be seen as one of the architects of an illusion. Or he may be seen as one of the architects of global stability. That needs at least a decade to play out.

He encouraged me to make every illusion about my personal dreams and my personal nightmares. So I took that idea and made it about everyone else's dreams . . . It's very moving and very emotional.

I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else,

I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else. I was treating it like a dirty secret or like Arron was this mistake in my life.

Place it against a vertical surface to reflect furnishings on the opposite wall to give the illusion that there is space behind.

Man knows the Illusion of his Life and not the Absolute Truth, the man creates the birth of the universes he has once known, but of the Illusory universes and not of those who form or are a part of the Print of our God who is the Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

It creates the illusion that the vertical planes are distant.

It is because of speech that men give the illusion of being free. By speaking, they deceive themselves, as they deceive others: because they say what they are going to do, who could suspect they are not masters of their actions?