Illusion Quotes
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It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
John Gardner -
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and the protected. Of sedate lovers. For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. Love is one of those, I guess. Going back to something very old knit into the brain as we were growing. Hopeless. Scorching. Ordinary.
Louise Erdrich
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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
Mike Mills -
When I’m writing I get it up as quickly as possible. I get the bass down and a drum sound, I don’t want to get bogged down in EQ. As long as it’s working and you’ve created a convincing illusion and the mood is coming to life then I’m happy with. That’s the writing stage.
Paul Tucker Lighthouse Family -
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
Ansel Adams -
Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.
Chogyam Trungpa -
You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
Tony Kushner
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The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
Marianne Williamson -
I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.
Gabrielle Bernstein -
Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
Winston Grime -
Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.
Mike Tyson -
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
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Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
C. S. Lewis -
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.
Thomas Nagel -
If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
Brian Andreas -
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
August Strindberg -
The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.
Charlene Spretnak
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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
Molly Ivins -
I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in life is genuinely the day of work you have. It's not the name you're making for yourself or the clicks and likes - it's such an illusion.
Lauren Graham -
Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.
Ang Lee -
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
Erwin McManus