Illusion quotes

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.