Illusions Quotes

That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

~ Erin Morgenstern

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

~ Karl Germain

That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like the disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.

~ Sherman Alexie

The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear.How to saw people in half?That too.Nice.

~ Catherine Fisher

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

~ Amit Kalantri

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

The secret of good magic is another magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

~ Amit Kalantri

Magic is logic.

~ Amit Kalantri

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

~ Amit Kalantri

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

A bad magician never gets the good props.

~ Amit Kalantri

A great magician is not more magical than other magicians, he is just more magical in his presentation.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

~ Amit Kalantri

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

~ Amit Kalantri

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

~ Amit Kalantri

...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ...

~ John Geddes

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

~ Émile Zola

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

~ Pascal Mercier

Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is bitter to the taste, but there is fortitude to be found in gall – forgive me my old-fashioned turns of phrase.

~ Gérard De Nerval

The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.

~ Bryant Mcgill

What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.

~ Daniel J. Rice

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

~ James Jones

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

~ Salman Rushdie

There is absolutely a big difference between getting a date and getting a husband. Being overly materialistic can get a lady some dates, but an impeccable character will surely get her a husband of a lifetime. Men that know what they truly want in life, as well as how to treat a lady like a Queen, tend to look for women with great character, and not women that hide behind their materialistic illusions. Every female can afford a makeup and other accessories, but not too many females have good manners. Therefore, it is quite a difficult task to get a good husband by depending on your physical appearance alone, because a lot of ladies are already using the same strategy. So why not dare yourself to be different and take a positive route?

~ Hafiz

...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefactors; men are universally actuated by self-interest; gratitude is a lovely sense of expected benefits; promises are never forgotten by those to whom they are made, usually by those who make them.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Life isn’t really linear. Although it’s generally perceived that way. The stories we tell are woven like snakes around a divining rod. A center of time containing all that’s ever been told and heard. Remembered and forgotten. Lost and found. Our pasts, presents and futures are unwound, stretched flat, cut into pieces and held up with human arms.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.

~ Annette Simmons

It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man, and we may only say that there is about certain outlines and entities a power of symbolism and suggestion which acts frightfully on a sensitive thinker’s perspective and whispers terrible hints of obscure cosmic relationships and unnamable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going.

~ Glen Cook

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible.

~ Julian Barnes

Earth is a place of limited illusions...

~ Ryan Formanes

It was clear that most of my insecurities originated from my need to have things be “perfect.” I wasn’t sure what bothered me more, the fact that I had no control over the changes of my body and hair or that this horrible situation was only happening to me.

~ Tracey Berkowitz

They were tough and sour, but as Pushkin said, 'Dearer to us than a host of truths is an exalting illusion.' I saw a happy man, whose cherished dream had so obviously come true, who had attained his goal in life, had gotten what he wanted, who was content with his fate and with himself. For some reason there had always been something sad mixed with my thoughts about human happiness, but now, at the sight of a happy man, I was overcome by an oppressive feeling close to despair.- Gooseberries

~ Anton Chekhov

She knew it wasn't real. She knew the holograph wouldn't hurt. But she also knew that fire was dangerous, and illusions were dangerous, and being tricked into believing things that weren't real was often the most dangerous thing of all.

~ Marissa Meyer

Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

~ Bernard Cornwell

We are all united by both pain and love. Both a smile and a wound. We are all united by these very basic yet very influential things, because we all recognize them, we all know what they feel like to have or to give. Everything else, all the other things that do not unite us— those things are all illusions.

~ C. Joybell C.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.

~ C.g. Jung

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

~ Lao Tzu