Illusion Quotes

The tricks of illusion came to him so easily that it seemed he had been born knowing them and needed only to be reminded

Ursula Le Guin

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Tom Stoppard

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Jim Murray

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

John Paul

Women are happier in their illusions than in their most agreeable experi-ences.

Adelaide Billet Dufresnoy

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

Arthur Miller

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

Sigmund Freud

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Cervantes, Miguel De

People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

Herzen, Alexander

For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.

Ionesco, Eugene

Analysts are great at providing data and information that the average buy-side shop doesn't have the capacity to get on their own. But no one on the buy side was ever under the illusion that these people were objective.

Angela Kohler

Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.

Richard Epstein

He may be seen as one of the architects of an illusion. Or he may be seen as one of the architects of global stability. That needs at least a decade to play out.

John Zogby

If I do, the whole thing falls apart. It fails. The illusion is in my head.

Ruth Rendell

If the recovery has been built on the illusion of money games like this, then one has to wonder what it is we are seeing that is getting better in the economy.

Seiji Maehara

I grew up with an idealized version of the sport, that people do it because they love horses. I guess that's just a romantic illusion.

James Hastie

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it is true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.

James Baldwin

I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.

Joni Mitchell

Unlike the small community, where every person lives in the illusion of having the same ideals, beliefs, and values as everyone else, in the larger context of plural communities-be it in country, continent, or globe we live in the illusion of absolute difference. So, fearing the possibility that the interaction will change us, we magnify the threat involved in engaging with that which differs from us. Change is stressful, and costly, because it requires learning to navigate the unfamiliar. In the end, you cannot work with anyone who is different, and problems that could be resolved if we allowed everyone to contribute the best of themselves begin to look intractable.

Hafsat Abiola

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

Dr. Susan Jane Blackmore

0 1 2 3 4 5

Quote categories related to Illusion: Disillusion Quotes | Magic Quotes | Delusion Quotes | Utopia Quotes | Quotation Topics Begins with I

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z