Illusion Quotes

The confusion created by mode of fictitious imagery, staged to produce a perceived idea of character or life, does only that - confuses.

~ Nicole Bonomi

It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.

~ Kem Nunn

Light and air — what means wherewith to conjure up illusions and deceive the senses!

~ John C. Van Dyke

If everything is an illusion. To experiment is to find out what's real.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Many of us believe that when we give love , we are getting the love back but sometimes it's just an illusion of what we gave them ..

~ Akash B Chandran

Life, the universe and everything is a time illusion.Khalid Masood

~ Khalid Masood

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

~ James Rozoff

Ample figure, dazzling splendour to rest under the bed of soil; blooming dreams and withering numb; pangs of hunger, hitches of joy; dreadful pain, loudest laughter, piteous silence that echoes deep – were they all mere delusion? Yet, I wonder if they were real at least until I close these eyes! O dear! Did your own self deceive you?

~ Preeth Nambiar

Delusion is the greatest barrier of humanity..

~ Simran Shah Khan

I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining men, believe this and commit the most unspeakable crimes.

~ Isaiah Berlin

And nothing's wrong when nothing's trueBut I live in a hologram with you.

~ Lorde

People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see.

~ Donna Tartt

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.

~ Liezi

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

~ Virginia Woolf

Nothing causes more people to deny God, misunderstand God, mistreat others, or abuse Nature more than the illusion of separateness. Nothing. No thing.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present – and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory.

~ Jeffery Deaver

Until you really loving, kind, caring, and compassionate, happiness will be an illusion to you.

~ Debasish Mridha

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

~ Arthur Miller

I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.

~ Marie Lu

Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; nor ever stopped to think that the lore and those ways were the sole makers of their present thoughts and judgments, and the sole guides and standards in a meaningless universe without fixed aims or stable points of reference.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses.

~ Debra Crown

How hard it is to kill hope! Time after time, one thinks one has trodden it down, stamped it to death. Time after time, like a noxious insect, it begins to stir again, it shivers back again into a faint tremulous life. Once more it worms its way into one's heart, to instil its poison, to gnaw away the solid hard foundations of life and leave in their place the hollow phantom of illusion.

~ Dorothy Bussy

They sell crap to buy you.

~ Toba Beta

Disappointment is the end of an illusion.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led was the only real life, and the one his friend led was a mere illusion.

~ Leo Tolstoy

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

~ D.h. Lawrence

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

~ Arthur Miller

Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.

~ Guy Gavriel Kay

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

~ Paul Russell

The lunatic, the lover, and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet's penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.

~ William Shakespeare

It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.

~ Venugopal Gupta

Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Samantha reminds me of the difference between what is illusion and what is real. I am reminded whenever I forget that we choose our truth and whether to embrace it or not.

~ H. Raven Rose

They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.

~ Andrew Holleran

My life is exactly what it's meant to be, and I'm okay. I'm. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot to me. I'm not perfect, I'm not completely healed, but I'm okay. I'll take it.

~ Ashley Beale

You're absolutely insane, that much I'm certain of, but it's one of the many things I love about you.

~ Ashley Beale

I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.

~ Ashley Beale

Life is short, do not hesitate!Enjoyed and lived Now because Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is only an illusion!

~ Ebelsain Villegas

The Didots created happiness and power, or in this case, pain and sadness...but only within its subject’s mind. The power it held was real, but it was not a physical power. It was the power of persuasion, the power of illusion. Mr. Bradshaw was a genius.

~ Embee