Illusion Quotes

Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

A woman should be an illusion.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.