Illusions Quotes

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Live, May, Gone

I'm an idealist without illusions.
John F. Kennedy

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
John Lennon

Cannot, Again, Artists

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Pain, Reality, Enjoy

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob Dylan

Change, Future, Mind

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts

Future, Past, Real

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo

Soul, Bird, Wings

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil

Great, Someone, Reality

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal

Love, Friendship, Less

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Antonio Gramsci

Live, Challenge, Becoming

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
Joseph Conrad

Safe, Dull, Profitable

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Trust, Heart, Thy

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Paul Cezanne

Age, Realize, Sensible

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
Tom Stoppard

Able, Against, Hold

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Joseph Conrad

Enemy, Friend, Thought

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude Stein

Hope, Death, Eyes

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Reality, Put, Place

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
Luis Palau

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
Cat Stevens

Life, God, Important

Words are illusions.
Bodhidharma

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux

Experience, Wisdom, Lost

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
Stephen Fry

Beauty, Cannot, Film

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole

Same, Greatness, Grandeur

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana

Everybody, Later, Baggage

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
Muhammad Iqbal

Decision, Cannot, Fate

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.
Maurice Sendak

Work, Great, False

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
Alexander McQueen

Work, Mind, Focused

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen

Art, Live, Feeling

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
Taylor Caldwell

Life, Happy, Days

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
Barbara Jordan

Destiny, America, Tough

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