Illusion Quotes

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. (Woody Allen)
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. View quote
Douglas Adams
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Orson Welles
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. View quote
Saul Bellow
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. View quote
Albert Einstein
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. View quote
Françoise Sagan
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Stephen Hawking
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. View quote
Rebecca West
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can. (Lafcadio Hearn)
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. View quote
John Steinbeck
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. View quote
David Icke
The secret to film is that it's an illusion. View quote
George Lucas
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. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one. View quote
Albert Einstein
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. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. View quote
Emil Cioran
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion. View quote
Colette
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. (Angela Carter)
Tradition is the illusion of permanance. View quote
Woody Allen
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. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. View quote
George Orwell