Illusion Quotes

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.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

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.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

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.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong.

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

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

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.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.