Illusion Quotations | Page 4

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit

Everything is an illusion.

A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

Control is an illusion ...

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink the ability to pay the debts, so it's all an illusion that the system can be saved. The question is, how long are people going to be willing to live in this illusion?

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.

Crowds create illusions.

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...

I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

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

Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

We create the illusions we need to go on.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

You can't walk alone, Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Reason is the illusion of reality

The Harris government pulled off a clever trick retaining all power while creating the illusion of relinquishing a substantial amount of it.

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

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths.

The illusion is that help (from the federal government) will be there minutes later, which is really not the case,

The idea that we can sit down at a table and have a true dialogue which is open and aimed at mutual understanding across differences is terrific. We're under no illusion that we'll agree on everything, but we do agree on the importance of reaching some common understanding.

And I told myself I was in a trap from which I wanted to escape! To escape where, do you, Man know where you want to go to break from tis inferno of your own existence? No, I do not know because I am blind and my Knowledge is in face an Illusion of Life wrapped in non-Knowledge, which is the Absolute Truth as unknown to me as the non-Knowledge.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

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

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.

Borrowed illusions are better than none ...

Analysts are great at providing data and information that the average buy-side shop doesn't have the capacity to get on their own. But no one on the buy side was ever under the illusion that these people were objective.

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

Originality is merely an illusion.

It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.

illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.