Illusions Quotes

I must show the blacksmith and the shopkeeper once more--two years after marriage--time long enough to have made common people as common to each other as the weed by the roadside; but these are not common to each other yet, and never will be. They will never complain of being _desillusionnes_, for they have never been illuded. They look up each to the other still, because they were right in looking up each to the other from the first. Each was, and therefore each is and will be, real.

~ George Macdonald

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

~ Leo Tolstoy

Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.

~ Mike Dickenson

When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. (“Not without the past”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair.

~ Mark Williams

Life is about going with the flow of time...Every single moment is becoming a past & every past needs us to let them stay as is untouched... Every single moment demands you to go... Don't turn back it's nothing there except the deceptive reality the illusions they are nothing but projections of our own mind the memories we want them relive...

~ Mohammad Shahzaib Ansari

My power is everywhere propping up illusions, but I'm taking it back by letting go of them & just riding the stallion into wonderland. Let's see what you've got to say about the darkness in the mountains, I wonder if you know you can just turn it all to light. As we ride through the valley can you see the same water flowing that I do, or do dust clouds conceal it and block up your nose & throat? You're so thirsty for the end of the journey but I don't want you to miss the magic on the road.

~ Jay Woodman

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

~ Dean Koontz

Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos...To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality

~ Sherif A. El-Mawardy

And it's his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed

~ Luke Rhinehart

To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you, to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions of your ego.

~ Oli Anderson

Remember seeker, our earthly perceptions of reality are just an illusion.

~ Earthschool Harmony

The consequence of your illusions is your reality.

~ Steven Redhead

Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun.

~ Anthony Liccione

What happens when you shut your eyes? The images you have been accustomed to look at suddenly disappear. See through the images by closing your eyes and opening your heart.

~ J.r. Rim

All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

And when I fall in love,” I began, I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.

~ V.c. Andrews

General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all There does exist a real magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

Fear is an illusionary place we travel to in our minds when we allow ourselves to move away from the heart.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more good and no more bad. Those terms are highly subjective.

~ C. Joybell C.

As adults we get so entrapped in illusions and trivia, that we forget the true essence of life; and so often we need to connect with children, to understand that it is the little, priceless joys that make life beautiful and worthy.

~ Manprit Kaur

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

~ Aprilynne Pike

In our day and age, global society has been saturated with the wrong teaching of false positivity. The denial of darkness never equates the abundance of light. And the denial of your actual character never equates to the reality of your best character. People today are afraid to work on themselves and on their actual realities, they believe that outward appearances are enough. Outward appearances have become everything in our current day and age. People don't see what they are actually like, nor who they actually are, in reality. They live in a phantasmic version of reality. It has to stop. In the phantasmic version of reality, there is no chance to experience true love, true goodness, and true metamorphosis. The caterpillar does not become a butterfly by telling everybody it has wings. It actually buries itself in darkness and grows those wings.

~ C. Joybell C.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

~ Stefan Molyneux

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you.

~ Steven Redhead

Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.

~ Initially No

Take this drink as a token ofmy disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.

~ Initially No

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

~ Amit Kalantri

He focused on the world before him, the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

~ Lynda Barry

Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.Human: You don’t believe in God?Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began.Human: You evolved. We were created.Hive Queen: By a virus.Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us.Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer.Human: I understand belief.Hive Queen: No—you desire belief.Human: I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that’s what faith is.Hive Queen: Or deliberate insanity.

~ Orson Scott Card

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

~ Thomas Clifford Allbutt

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

~ Mary Baker Eddy

The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn’t lie and words can be very deceitful, they create the illusion that a large number hides a great word.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution. Yet many of us continue to find solace in illusions, in conformity to systematical oppression, in distractions that keep us mentally, socially and often physically retarded.

~ D. Allen Miller

Never expect a yield of milk from a bull.

~ Bikash Chaurasiya

The movie Mr. Nobody examines the core belief that we can find happiness if we make the right choices in life. We can’t; it’s impossible. But the belief that we have real choices that can bring us what we want is cherished by the ego because it keeps us locked into a never-ending quest of looking for happiness where it can’t be found. Mr. Nobody demonstrates that all the choices of this world are made because we have forgotten God and therefore believe in an illusory world of duality. None of our choices are real because they are a choice between the images of this made-up world; that is, a choice between illusions. They are nothing more than hypotheticals, which serve as meaningless distractions.

~ David Hoffmeister

Here’s what's breaking into my imagination and whatever is in there; that you are not afraid you’ve seen, is yours to take.

~ Omar Gamal Said