Illusion Quotes

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

Time, Good, Evil

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

Whole, Everybody, Fools

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
Jeff Bridges

Real, Light, Off

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly

Happy, Passion, Embrace

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Emile M. Cioran

Freedom, Everything, Longer

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.
Peter Abrahams

History, Alone, Made

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
Jack Nicholson

Live, Heart, Deep

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Ang Lee

Life, Truth, Nothing

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne

Truth, Losing, Makes

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
Anthony Hopkins

Time, Strange, Second

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch

Life, Great, Live

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Rebecca West

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
King Hussein I

Life, God, Fear

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Georges Bernanos

Hope, Nothing, Poor

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

Time, Good, Hard

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.
Francoise Sagan

Life, Great, Art

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Arnold Newman

Reality, Real, Create

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.
Henry Thomas

Give, Complicate

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley

Life, Great, Place

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
George Saunders

Experience, Character, Often

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.
Hugh Leonard

Wife, Down, Living

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
David Cronenberg

Reality, Confuse, Tend

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello

Today, Tomorrow, Reality

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
Talib Kweli

Live, Problem, Role

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'
Gabriel Byrne

Alone, Live, Give

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan Bloom

Cannot, Reason, Values

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
Tony Kushner

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.
Patti Stanger

Future, Husband, Live

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Mario Vargas Llosa

Freedom, Equality, Real

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
Juliette Binoche

Famous, Important, May

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