Illusion Quotes

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles

Love, Friendship, Alone

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

Reality, Persistent, Merely

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

Future, Past, Between

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan

Love, Sometimes, Magic

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

Single, Problem, Place

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.
Socrates

Emotional, True, Nothing

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde

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

Another, Dream, Wake

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Sai Baba

Live, Around, Values

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Person, Meet, Optical

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
Michael Jordan

Fear, Often, Limits

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

Love, Mother, Father

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba

Same, Last, House

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.
George Washington

Experience, Real, Pride

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Voltaire

Today, Everything, Fine

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland

Dreams, Time, Death

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Johnny Depp

Life, May, Done

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Voltaire

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

Nothing, Everything, Exists

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Judy Garland

Lost, Strange, Child

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge, Ignorance, Greatest

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

Religion, Strength, Fact

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Anne Lamott

Life, Good, Power

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams

Time, Lunchtime, Doubly

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
Charles M. Schulz

Life, Home, Decorate

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love, Child, Parent

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Pope John Paul II

Political, Through, Problems

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell

Progress, Happens, Slow

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal

Evil, Since, Full

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad

Loneliness, Lonely, True

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