Illusion Quotes - page 33

In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave. (Pablo Neruda)
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. View quote
Brooks Atkinson
The divergent scales of values scream in discordance, they dazzle and daze us, and in order that it might not be painful we steer clear of all other values, as though from insanity, as though from illusion, and we confidently judge the whole world according to our own home values. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion. View quote
Albert Camus
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there...the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. View quote
Joe Haldeman
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol. View quote
W. C. Fields
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. View quote
David Blaine
The use of cliché [is] the use of ready-made, prefabricated formulas designed to give those who are too lazy think the illusion of thinking. View quote
Northrop Frye
Perhaps he'd want me to conjure up an illusion. That might be fun: there was bound to be a way of misinterpreting his request and upsetting him†. †One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror. View quote
Jonathan Stroud
Death only grasps; to live is to pursue, - Dream on! there 's nothing but illusion true! View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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)
We have faith in the power to change what needs to be changed but we are under no illusion that the transition from dictatorship to liberal democracy will be easy, or that democratic government will mean the end of all our problems. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number' No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence' No. Commit it then to the flames for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. View quote
David Hume
What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion. View quote
David Hume
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, There 's nothing true but Heaven. View quote
Charles Lamb
In this country we have the illusion that there's always this warm, loving community we belong to, but the other side of that is a sort of exclusiveness and xenophobia, and our food reflects that.Japanese cuisine isn't inclusive at all-infact it's extremely inhospitable to outsiders, to people who don't fit into the community. View quote
Ryu Murakami
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity. View quote
George Sand
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. View quote
William Faulkner
Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. View quote
Virginia Woolf
There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we're down the next day. View quote
Carl Sagan
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted. (Al Pacino)
I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. View quote
Michael Jordan
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of. View quote
Carl Jung
And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work-wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow. View quote
Mel Gibson