Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us? - Ariana Carruth
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction. - Robert Higgs
Until we learn to love each other, try to understand each other, and be compassionate to each other, peace will be an illusion. - Debasish Mridha
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Charles Addams
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
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. - Luigi Pirandello
With true beauty, there is no illusion. - James Philip Head
Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge. - Lionel Suggs
Fear is like an illusion of a dangerous wall between you and your goal. - Miao Potirutch
There is no fact or fiction, reality or illusion, there is only the trick of perception. - Debasish Mridha
Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective - Farley Maglaya
I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I’m a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist. - Shawna Lemay
Strength conquers weakness through force. Weakness conquers strength through seduction,the look and feel of ease, the illusion of rest without responsibility,and the hallucination of unaccountability in general. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief. - Debasish Mridha
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. - Cicero
Art is the illusion of spontaneity. - Japanese Proverb
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses. - Sigmund Freud
You cannot slay the illusion of the victim until you face it and call it truth - Deborah Brodie
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written. - Italo Calvino
*Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life. - Ann Marie Aguilar
Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic. - Amit Kalantri
Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind. - Debasish Mridha
Stupid girl. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. - Sylvia Plath
There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion... - Virginia Alison
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. - Albert Einstein
All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion. - Ash Vaz
Fear doesn't let you fail, it releases you from illusion! - Vishwanath S J
A beautiful country is a dream-like an illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end. - Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment. - Mehek Bassi
Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter. - A.E. Samaan
Illusion is so fragile; it rarely survive questions. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning. - Anna Jae
Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier. - Kris Courtney
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion - Voltaire
Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion. - Sunny John
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. - Gordon Atkinson
Death IS an illusion. The body dies. The soul/spirit lives forever. YOU are the sum total of ALL you survey. Who would know you and not know your name? __ - Kat Kaelin
Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars. - Tariq Ramadan
Life, the universe and everything is a time illusion. - Khalid Masood
Some do magic, some are god. Most seems a lie, yet most is true. It all depends on the definitions of words within ones illusion of the world. - L.H.
Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale. - Dada Bhagwan
We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion. - Sorin Cerin
To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The devil's weapon is an illusion of our imagination. - Sunday Adelaja
Seule compte la démarche. Car c'est elle qui dure et non le but qui n'est qu'une illusion du voyageur quand il marche de crête en crête comme si le but atteint avait un sens - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Illusion close to reality was your love, you certainly are quintessential with your licks and promises. - Na
If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality? - Lionel Suggs
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. - Margaret Cho
...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight. - Tamora Pierce
Love is making friends with fear because fear is the constant companion of intimacy ~ and when you bring fear out of the darkness and into the light, you realize it was an illusion based on our own insecurities. - Allen L. Roland
Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it. - Beau Taplin
Enlightenment is the AWARENESS that ALL is ONE and ONE is ALL. Ignorance is the illusion of separateness. - Manprit Kaur
Romance is an illusion of love and excitement that touches our hearts and mind. It lingers in our memories like a fairy tale. - Debasish Mridha
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool. - Marquis de Sade
We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa’s sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands. - Robin Wall Kimmerer
She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now--the glory and the dream? - L.M. Montgomery
Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal. - Debasish Mridha
It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself. - Anton Chekhov
There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion. - Lionel Suggs
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Börne
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you don't believe in time, your day will be longer (because reality time is an illusion, it exist only because of us and if we don't exist time doesn't exist!?) - Deyth Banger
Natural Self is the Soul and illusion is the relative self [prakruti]. - Dada Bhagwa
Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion. - Erol Ozan
Time is an illusion. - Albert Einstein
True happiness is devoid of any illusion. - Dada Bhagwan
And somewhere amidst the storm raging inside, between the twilight of lust and desire, entwined within the whirlwind of swirling emotions, it happened. In one lightning strike, the illusion crumbled. For I realised the naked truth... - Virginia Alison
Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do. - David D. Burns
There is no illusion in awaken mind, because everything is perceived as impermanent and transient. - Aditya Ajmera
Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone. - Amitav Chowdhury
Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye. - Chuck Sigars
Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion. - Sorin Cerin
Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion. - Gautama Buddha
Belief is an illusion, backed by your heart and mind. - Sachin Kumar Puli
You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you. - Lauren Zimmerman
The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change. - Debasish Mridha
Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing. - Aleksandra Ninkovic
I am Chandubhai’ is an illusion itself and from that are karmas charged. When does ‘charging’ of new karmas stop? When one attains the exact awareness of ‘who I am?’. - Dada Bhagwan
Reading Is Very Powerful.... It Gives You The Illusion To See The Past, Present, Future And Even Seeing The Invisible.... So READ.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. - Ellen Hopkins
Perhaps I should explain to him that it has been my particular way of frustrating time's attrition, postponing death and sustaining the illusion that one can always erase everything and make a fresh start. - Nathacha Appanah
To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do. - Vironika Tugaleva
How do we know that in clinging to this life we are not merely clinging to an illusion and delaying our entry into the real world? - Chuang-tzu
Take a closer look at the word "Change". You never "Changed", instead, you were 'Manipulated' by illusion. - Vishwanath S J
Time is but an illusion created by beings with limited perception. - Ken Poirot
The obstacle in spritual growth is not ignorance of self, it is the illusion of self. - Aditya Ajmera
The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding. - William H. Whyte
Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous. - Lynda Williams
REJECTION is kind of your negative ILLUSION which has no value but it’s give you a CLUE to go for next level of your ACTION. - Rashedur Ryan Rahman
For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality - Sanal Edamaruku
I say illusion of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing. - Geoffrey Wood
I really like the topic about time is an Illusion and also this quote "#Time Physical things are merely the collapse of psychic things into physical reality." - it's powerful. As much you repeat it as much powerful it gets. - Deyth Banger
The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality. The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality. The third stage of ignorance is the rejection of altruism. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you. - George Orwell
my whole authorship pertains to Christianity, to the issue: becoming a Christian, with direct and indirect polemical aim at that enormous illusion, Christendom-- Soren Kierkegaard "The Point of View for My Work as an Author, (The Single Individual) - Soren kierkagaard
Pain is an illusion, an illusion that really really hurts! - Check 'Grin' Hardwing
Once you can let go of illusion and draw upon a more universal source of motivation then you will re connect with your true purpose on Earth. - Gary Markwick
There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep. - Saul Bellow
Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion. - C.S. Lewis
I sometimes ask these questions to myself: Are you chasing a dream just to prove that you can catch it? Will it really bring you happiness and fulfillment? Is it really your dream or just an illusion that you want to play on people's eyes? Isn't it time to forget it and embrace your real calling? - Jorge P. Guerrero
Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion. - Debasish Mridha
Illusion (maya) cannot enter where there is ‘light’ (enlightenment, awareness). Once darkness falls, illusion will enter there. The Gnani Purush can arrange for your illusion to go away permanently. - Dada Bhagwan
In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they’re looking for numbness, so be ready to sedate. Drugs, booze, television, shopping, etc… - Geoffrey Wood Grimrack An Infernal Epistolary
There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism. - Amit Kalantri
Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion. - E'yen A. Gardner
You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. - Sylvia Plath
Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this? - Dada Bhagwan
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. - Leo Tolstoy
Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it's illusion... so how did you survive??? - Deyth Banger
Remember! Reality's an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold! Byeeee! - Bill Cipher Gravity Falls tv show
Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins. - Dada Bhagwan
A mirror creates the illusion of distance which makes the client feel more comfortable as he or she shares deep, personal details with their stylist. - StacyK
We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. - W. Somerset Maugham
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear. - Marilyn C. Barrick
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. - Saul Bellow
We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all. - Gautama Buddha
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. - Khaled Hosseini
You and I are separate is an illusion. You and I are connected with energy that fills the space.You and I are made up of this energy. This energy is love.You and I are one. This oneness is love. - Rashmit Kalra
No one is a doer in this world. To claim, ‘I am doing’ is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the umbrella of egoism. - Dada Bhagwan
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil. - Gautama Buddha
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Peace is just an illusion created by those in power - Tom Collin
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. - Brooks Atkinson
Wondering is illusion. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome. - Dawn Gluskin
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true. - Neil Gaiman
Happiness is as fragile and fleeting as a bubble soap. Water down the last dregs of happiness and turn them into bubbles to fill the void. It may nothing more than an illusion, but it was still better than the emptiness. - Kanae Minato
The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness. - Raphael Zernoff
Chaos exists only in the moment. But Fate knows all. Every action and reaction. Since everything is destined, nothing is random... Chaos is only an illusion. - B.C. Sirrom
Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it. - Donna Lynn Hope
Life’s biggest enemy is time. It kills us slowly as the illusion changes. - Debasish Mridha
The person performing the experiment becomes the object of the experiment himself; this is known as the illusion! - Dada Bhagwan
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy
The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice... - Henry Lindell
Nothing cuts as deep and unexpectedly as the illusion of hope. - Wynand de Beer
Even though we express emotions and feel motion, life is nothing but a dream and a magical illusion. - Debasish Mridha
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
Many of us believe that when we give love , we are getting the love back but sometimes it's just an illusion of what we gave them .. - Akash B Chandran
And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real. - Paul Krugman
If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then you’re delusional. Your emotion is part you. You’re made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence. - Ann Marie Aguilar
If you want to conquer the stress,anger and illusion of life, live in the moment, enjoy your breathing, count your blessings. - Bhimsen Sapkota
You have to realize that modern power, is nothing but a concept in the mind of the one who’s under the power. And once you realize this, you realize that authority is indeed an illusion. - Phoenix Sinistra
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? - Lois McMaster Bujold
Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me. - Michael Treanor
Madness is depressing illusion. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is an illusion - ShinigamiGew
[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation. - C.S. Lewis
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality. - Debasish Mridha
You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice has become nothing but an illusion for you. - Lionel Suggs
What is man but an illusion perceiving itself in a nested hierarchy of holographic information. - R.A.Delmonico
Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion? - Jalaluddin Rumi
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. - Javan
The seething rage that accompanies the truly despondent, effaces the delusional that mock from the safety of their shared illusion. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Life is an illusion of the reality which we want or wish - Saurabh Mathur
The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. - Gareth J. Nelson
Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms. - Robert Fanney
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. - Orson Welles
The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command. - Phillip Connors
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief. - Oliver Gaspirtz
Stay faithful to consciousness, rest everything is illusion including your mind. Simply be aware without adulterations from intellegience. - Aditya Ajmera
They say that color is only an illusion. Well, I like that trick....A lot! - Andrea L'Artiste
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. - David Cronenberg
When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession. - Debasish Mridha
Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation… - Northrop Frye
It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality. - Lionel Suggs
Levels are just numbers. In this world, strength is just an illusion. There are more important things -Kirito - Reki Kawahara
After all, true love is the magic between two people and the illusion of being happy even in the middle of tears - kayser U
If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable. - Christopher Hitchens
Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive. - David W. Earle
Peace without truth is nothing but an illusion – a deceptive misguidance which generates opportunities and problems to chew the sweet and bitter tastes of evil respectively. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Mind is absolutely competent to harvest anything, it is up to us what we wish to produce!! Illusion, Ignorance or Awareness. - Aditya Ajmera
It struck me then that perhaps the bareness and wrongness of the world was an illusion; that things might still be real, and right, and beautiful, even if I could not see them - that if I stood in the right place, and was lucky, this might somehow be revealed to me. - Helen Macdonald
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. - Albert Einstein
Truth is always a quest and if it looks anything like a destination, it is proof that we are on to illusion. Thus, unique is each quest! - R. N. Prasher
Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else. - Rati Tsiteladze
Nobody truly becomes an adult. The child we have been is always there, deep inside of us. As time passes, we think we're growing, but maturity is only an illusion; a hindrance to our free child soul. - Jirō Taniguchi
Never ever try to look for the meaning of life. If you do, everything will become tasteless. Just stay where you are and be happy.Trust me, It's better to be in the illusion rather than in reality. So why spoil all the fun - Anas Khan
When one is well-read, one has a lot of illusion to overcome. - Marty Rubin
I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do. - Thurman P. Banks Jr.
I Have No Illusion These Will Come Easy". - Behnam Rajabpoor
When you are in love, reality becomes illusion and illusion become reality. - Debasish Mridha
The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy - James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters. - Stefan Molyneux
INFINITY is an illusion, we are just too lazy to count... - Andy Flynn
Many people become prosperous only to realize the illusion that Success is more Fulfillment than Achievement. - RVM
When a person loves only oneself and meets the people of own nature , it creates often an illusion to the onlookers that they all like one another but the real scene could be different altogether. - Anuj Somany
Am I an illusion? - Debasish Mridha
It is an illusion that money brings happiness - Sunday Adelaja
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.
Wondering is positive illusion. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of illusion and reality, trees and forests can offer no help. - R. N. Prasher
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. - John Berger
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams
Increment in remuneration every year is just an illusion for it can't even counter the effect of inflation & price rise and thereby leading to accumulation of financial burden on the shoulder of the common men especially salaried class people and so we have economic recession. - Anuj Somany
Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. After the light is let in to our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that it always has been there, yet we created an illusion of darkness. - Raphael Zernoff
Sunsets.The illusion either above the horizon or below it. When day and night are linked in a way that cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. - Ebelsain Villegas
The past is gone, and tomorrow is an illusion. There is only now. - William Donelson
To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real? - Jay Woodman
What we touch with our fingers is false. What we feel through our perceptions is real. What we see through our eyes is an illusion, but what we see through our heart is real. - Debasish Mridha
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. - Tennessee Williams
When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self. - Bryant McGill
You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun. - J.R. Rim
Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality. - JT Sanz
[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms. - George Orwell
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. - David Sedaris
What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion. - Tyler Knott Gregson
Reality is a perceptual illusion we have accepted as truth. - Debasish Mridha
The world is real; philosophy is the illusion. - Marty Rubin
Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment. - Vikrmn
The novelist uses facts to create a fiction about life. The pornographer uses sexual reality to create sexual illusion. - Marty Rubin
When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion. - Susan Blackmore
The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer. - Lionel Suggs
we all are the part of illusion society, those who know, they know how to come out - Sandeep Sethi
The identity you're craving for is an illusion; your true nature has no identity, you're the universe -you contain all things! - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Some relationships are just a mere illusion! - Elena ristic
Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy. - Lionel Suggs
I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. - Petronius Arbiter
Life is an illusion. Don’t forget to enjoy the magnificence of magic. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Magic is always an illusion and love a magic of illusion. - Amit Abraham
It's one fucking illusion in this fucking delusion... you don't want to be in my dream, do ya? - Deyth Banger
All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Truth hides behind the curtain of illusion. We often get lost in illusion and forget to find the truth. - Debasish Mridha
Love Is Nothing But A Illusion. - The Zahan
Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again. - Dada Bhagwan
There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past, that you can survive without a brain but not for long period...What Is Consciousness? And many other stuff... (so the question which has left, do you have the time to do it?) - Deyth Banger
What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge. - Orrin Woodward
adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde
Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Time is an illusion, timing is an art. - Stefan Emunds
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one 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 circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. - Anne Lamott
Remember meditation is an active, deep remembrance, and that is discernment. Wherever you go, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, remember to utilize discernment so that you can hear and sense and feel the vibration of love rather than the vibration of illusion. - Tony Samara
There is no illusion greater than fear. - Lao Tzu
This body, this body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in this body, this body holding me. Feeling eternal. All this pain is an illusion. - Tool
Originality is merely an illusion. - M. C. Escher
The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished. - George Bernard Shaw
You are the illusion, be anything you want to be! - Marc Marcel
God is like an umbrella of illusion and belief, In rainy days we use him, in sunny days we forget him. - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can’t see.- Lady Lalaigne - Jeanine Henning
The poor fool hadn't realized that if all mankind shares a folly or an illusion, and likes to share it even knowing what it is, then the illusion is much more valuable and fine a kind of thing than the ass who wants to upset it. - John Dickson Carr