Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. Votes: 4
Elizabeth BowenI took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head. Votes: 3
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniIllusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. Votes: 3
Barbara KingsolverIllusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. Votes: 3
Sigmund FreudPerhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality. Votes: 3
Norton JusterLife and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. Votes: 2
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituThe challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. Votes: 2
Antonio GramsciDreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead. Votes: 2
David CopperfieldRome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. Votes: 2
Giotto di BondoneI never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. Votes: 2
Alexander McQueenA magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances. Votes: 1
Amit KalantriIls en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion. Votes: 1
Gustave FlaubertOne sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death. Votes: 1
Guy de MaupassantNon mi manca quello che mostravi di essere, mi manca quello che pensavo tu fossi. Votes: 1
Alda MeriniMagic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. Votes: 1
Karl GermainIdeas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair. Votes: 1
Mark WilliamsYou're always free to change your mindand choose a different future, or a different past. Votes: 1
Richard BachWhat I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic. Votes: 1
Amit KalantriThe main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. Votes: 1
James JonesIn the end there is only light and dark. And the two are not so far apart. Votes: 1
Thomas Lloyd QuallsA great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. Votes: 1
Amit KalantriAll our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality. Votes: 1
Aleksandra NinkovicIn the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? Votes: 1
Stanley Victor PaskavichIf you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you. Votes: 1
Steven RedheadHe focused on the world before him; the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes. Votes: 1
Leigh HershkovichDon't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Votes: 1
Mark Twain"There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellHallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. Votes: 0
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoRemember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions. Votes: 0
Elsa SchiaparelliBirth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellSingle vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters. Votes: 0
Donna J. HarawayTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOur experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. Votes: 0
Philibert Joseph RouxStreetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation. Votes: 0
Billy JoelHow disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. Votes: 0
Hanif KureishiWhat is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudMost people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities. Votes: 0
Orrin WoodwardWe should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms. Votes: 0
George SantayanaWishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. Votes: 0
Isabel AllendeWorrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. Votes: 0
Melody Beattiethe most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself. Votes: 0
Peg BrackenThen I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldEverybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. Votes: 0
Carlos SantanaIn my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteThe causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. Votes: 0
Ayn RandReason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonThe possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels. Votes: 0
Jose SaramagoAll things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillAll things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming. Votes: 0
Bryant H. McGillFreedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. Votes: 0
Edwin Way TealeTruth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops. Votes: 0
Linda EvangelistaThe flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real. Votes: 0
Bryant H. McGillThe soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions. Votes: 0
Victor HugoThe true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth. Votes: 0
Jagadish Chandra BoseAction is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Votes: 0
Joseph ConradThe challenges are illusions, but necessary ones to determine if you can see through them. Votes: 0
Darrell CalkinsWe must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others. Votes: 0
Bernard WilliamsLet there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break. Votes: 0
Peter AkinolaOur very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving. Votes: 0
John StoltenbergThe only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions. Votes: 0
William John LockeSometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheTruth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm. Votes: 0
James Anthony FroudeThe commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. Votes: 0
Tim FerrissOne of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time. Votes: 0
John Ortberg[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. Votes: 0
Carl SaganI am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding. Votes: 0
Hanif KureishiA man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinThe task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. Votes: 0
Arthur MillerWisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others. Votes: 0
William MonahanShow me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions. Votes: 0
Henry R. LuceI am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions. Votes: 0
David CopperfieldOne of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. Votes: 0
Eugene DelacroixLife is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantThe past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. Votes: 0
Emile ZolaConduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. Votes: 0
Muhammad IqbalI am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood. Votes: 0
David BenatarLife never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. Votes: 0
Andre Luiz MoreiraPeople often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality. Votes: 0
Lionel SuggsI have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. Votes: 0
Taylor CaldwellIf you're brave enough to follow truth it will shatter you and your illusions at the same time. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillIf silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it? Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellNothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiWhen our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. Votes: 0
Walter RussellOm (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions. Votes: 0
Amit RayNo, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Votes: 0
Daphne du MaurierOf course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living. Votes: 0
Jean RhysThe trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you. Votes: 0
Mary Doria RussellWhatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality. Votes: 1 Jacque Fresco
My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. Votes: 3 Maurice Sendak