Quotes

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein


The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein



The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw


Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde


Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Angela Carter


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.
Socrates



There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Limits, like fear, are often an illusion.
Michael Jordan


Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Sai Baba


Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche


A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba


There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland


Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Voltaire


Illusion is the first of all pleasures.Voltaire


What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin


Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud


Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
Charles M. Schulz


Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
Woody Allen


If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky


Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal


Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Arthur Erickson


Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad


Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Henri Nouwen


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.
Thomas Moore


A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
George Jean Nathan


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.
Marianne Williamson


The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck


It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
W. Somerset Maugham


a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.James Patrick Murray



We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
George Harrison


Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
Jacque Fresco


What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andre Maurois


If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick


I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
Steve Martin


Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Publilius Syrus


Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus


If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
Marguerite Young


If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
Herman Hesse


Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Philip Guston


The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
George Lucas


The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard