Illusion Quotes

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
Ramman Kenoun

Nation, Oppression, Occupation

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
Joe Henderson

Time, Important, Found

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.
Eve Arnold

Love, Single, Reality

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
Julian Barbour

Time, Simply, Brains

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.
Mel Gibson

Work, Wise, Tomorrow

We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.
Roma Downey

God, Spiritual, Show

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
Philip Guston

Mind, Painting, Magic

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
Johann Most

Doubt, Battle, Before

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
David Blaine

Art, Idea, Hand

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Timothy Zahn

Luck, Ignorant, Foolish

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
Joseph Jarman

Society, Human, Here

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
Daniel Dennett

Freedom, Human, Found

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello

Today, Tomorrow, Reality

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
Anselm Kiefer

Life, Art, Together

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
Rick Renzi

Success, Free, Progress

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.
Albert Claude

Forget, May, Him

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase

Death, Travel, Find

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
John C. Hawkes

Dream, Center, Twig

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.
David Knopfler

Best, Poetry, Feeling

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.
Max Greenfield

Love, Someone, Reality

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Belief, Absence, Illusions

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler

Death, Sad, Nothing

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
Rafael Nadal

Good, Play, Keep

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.
Stana Katic

Men, Marry, Muse

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
Tayari Jones

Life, Emotional, Writing

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.
Isaac Yeffet

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.
Kim Il-sung

Good, Give, Necessary

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
Larry McMurtry

Success, Money, Great

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.
Franjo Tudjman

History, Give, Working

To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong.
Kevin Conroy

Strong, Person, Two

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