Illusion Quotes
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
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Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
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The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
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Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Time is an illusion.
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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.
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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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Only love is real...everything else is illusion
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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There’s no urgency, a third voice urged, pleading compromise. No duty calls. Hold onto the illusion a little longer.So she tried to go on pretending. After all, can’t believing sometimes make dreams come true?No, it can’t. Besides, you're awake now.
