Illusions Quotes

How do you know about the world is real?...How?...How you don't think that you are locked in matrix... which is programmed by a genius or something more further... which we don't believe it goes like fatasy and science fiction which is ...we are cursed by a witch and we stay in a box... full of illusions.

~ Deyth Banger

The conquered roam free in the box of insanity.

~ T.f. Hodge

To live on as we have is to leave behind joy, and love, and companionship, because we know it to be transitory, of the moment. We know it will turn to ash. Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your race has ever received.

~ Lorien - Babylon 5

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

~ Lorde

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

~ Fernando Pessoa

The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

~ Pascal Mercier

Are designations congruent with things? Is language the adequate expression of all realities?It is only by means of forgetfulness that man can ever reach the point of fancying himself to possess a truth of the grade just indicated. If he will not be satisfied with truth in the form of tautology, that is to say, if he will not be content with empty husks, then he will always exchange truths for illusions.

~ Friedrich Neitzsche

I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.

~ Yasmine Galenorn

I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not mean that it does not occur,' Amos wrote to an American economist who complained about the description of human nature implied by 'Value Theory.' 'A theory of vision cannot be faulted for predicting optical illusions. Similarly, a descriptive theory of choice cannot be rejected on the grounds that it predicts 'irrational behavior' if the behavior in question is in fact observed.

~ Michael Lewis

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

~ Joseph Roux

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

~ Giotto Di Bondone

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

~ Stendhal