Illusion Quotes - page 8

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things. (Jean Rhys)
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception. View quote
John Piper
The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with Thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mired in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to a higher frequency in consciousness and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion. View quote
John Randolph Price
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Only love is real. Everything else illusion Adding to the confusion of the way we connive At being alive. Tracing a line till we can define The thing that allows us to feel. Only love is real. View quote
Carole King
I wish that people would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved (by large studies); the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion. View quote
Alfred Binet
Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go. View quote
Kris Carr
There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion. View quote
Lee Strobel
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person. View quote
Edith Head
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it. View quote
Atom Egoyan
Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion. (Hélder Câmara)
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. View quote
Arnold Newman
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. View quote
Charles Addams
Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well. View quote
Jürgen Moltmann
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself. View quote
Albert Claude
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford. View quote
Arthur Goldberg
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. View quote
David Knopfler
The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away. View quote
Duncan Sheik
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind. View quote
Ella Maillart
I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real. (Eric Jerome Dickey)
The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion. View quote
Guy Verhofstadt
I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished. View quote
Hugh Leonard
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. View quote
Javan
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction. View quote
Jesse Eisenberg