Best Illusion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History

“I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.”

Ideas Whole Reality Law Fall Left Wall Illusion Bunch

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.”

Mind Long Play Character Guy Father Given Changed Lovers Illusion Wide Range Villain Cop Bad Guys

Author:Navid Negahban

“If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.”

People Ifs Made I Can Careers Illusion Illusion Of Control

Author:Diane Lane

“At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.”

Should Ends Reader Illusion Inevitable

Author:Aprilynne Pike

“For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.”

Way Real Helping Actors Found Known Style Illusion Advantage Sells Definite Disbelief Suspension Suspension Of Disbelief

Author:Oren Peli

“Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.”

Wells Might Culture Belief Common Demand Illusion Contemporary Common Sense Pretending Systematic Fluffy

Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.”

Said Actors Security Benefits Illusion

Author:Hal Sparks

“There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.”

Trying Reality Pain Suffering Illusion Deny Eastern Wipe Pain And Suffering

Author:Lee Strobel

“Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.”

Writing Lost Novel Childhood Illusion Expectations Titles Maturity Passages Thrill Clash Great Writers Motifs

Author:Andre Maurois

“You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.”

Ifs Might Choices Buddhism Balance Ego Illusion Eternity You Choose Wrong Choices

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.”

Way Self Life Is Attention Awareness Fields Buddhism Illusion Reflection Invisible Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it's fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won't happen in one day.”

Ifs Happens Age Humanity Buddhism Periods One Day Illusion Golden Cycles Fooled Golden Age Mirages

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion.”

Love Is Emotion Buddhism Illusion Sexuality Beloved Chariots Prisms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.”

Thinking Life Inspirational Past Positive Illusion

Author:Esther Hicks

“The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.”

Life Inspirational Life Is Journey Sea Positive Illusion Life Journey

Author:Neville Goddard

“You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Buddhism Walking Illusion Prison Credit Cards Locked Credit Card

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.”

Inspirational Buddhism Perception Illusion Illusory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world.”

World Mind Meditation Materials Buddhism Illusion Empty Folds Material World

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.”

Ifs Made Light Seems Eye Life Is Seeing Illusion Senses Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.”

Action Consciousness Effects Illusion Busy Liberation Hinduism Contemplating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.”

Whole Spirit Mother Father Known Mystery Expression Illusion All Things Infinite Tao Mystic Intricate Interdependence Great Spirit Separateness Web Of Life

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.”

Knows Men Roles Stupid Illusion Brad

Author:Breckin Meyer

“One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.”

Mind Done Illusion

Author:Ella Maillart

“When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.”

Thinking Loses Illusion Empty

Book:Inner Excellence: Spiritual Principles of Life-Driven Business

Source: Inner Excellence: Spiritual Principles of Life-Driven Business

“I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.”

Stills Movement Painting Illusion Exciting Tricks Fixed

Author:Cecily Brown

“I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.”

Illusion Audio

Author:Tom Waits

“Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.”

Men Illusion Clutch

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.”

Reality Leader Illusion Painful Peaceful

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.”

“We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.”

Thinking Knows Persons Romance Fantasy Wife Goes On Husband Illusion Our Future Future Husband

Author:Patti Stanger

“What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.”

Wish Illusion

Book:The Starlight Crystal

Source: The Starlight Crystal

“The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially unrealistic expectations regarding the future that greatly exceed what one is actually able to accomplish, then one is set up for failure and disappointment, leading to lower self-esteem.”

Ifs Ideas Self Able Self Esteem Illusion Expectations Disappointment Accomplish Checks Esteem Exceed Unrealistic Expectations

Author:Shelley E. Taylor

“Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.”

Thinking World Should Real Reality Happens Suffering Happened Illusion Expectations Should Have Projection Whatever Happens

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.”

People Thinking Years Two Jobs Successful Nice Honest Praying Illusion Profession Being Honest Brown Two Years Hindsight Murphy Murphy Brown

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

Sometimes Reality Pain Bits Enjoy Pleasure Accepting Pieces Illusion Investing Complaints Collide

Book:Reflections on War and Death

Source: Reflections on War and Death

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

Facts Spiritual Science Death Desire Religion Fall Psychology Atheism Dying Strength Illusion Atheist Agnostic Psychiatry Atheistic Religion In Society

Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!”

Has Beens Jobs Purpose Half Humour Illusion Satire Comforting Back Again Half Truth Veneer Cosy Flanders

Author:Michael Flanders

“May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.”

Years May Has Beens Book Illusion Fellows Humble Contrary Forty Architect Grandeur Public Good Open Book Delusions Of Grandeur Illusions Of Grandeur

Author:Ralph Thomas Walker

“What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion”

Loses Illusion Gains

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.”

Heart Reason Youth Illusion Generous Spoil Wrinkles

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.”

Way Home Illusion Garden Simplicity Spending Innocent Curious Cash Consuming

Book:A Woman Talking

Source: A Woman Talking

“If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Truth Understanding Break Clear Amount Truth Is Illusion Ultimate Appearance Doctrine Prose Barriers Break Through Canon Ultimate Truth Clear Minds

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.”

Inspirational Years Illusion My Best Friend Sustaining

Book:Norma Jean, the termite queen

Source: Norma Jean, the termite queen

“I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of man. It is not a property of the universe. Rationality may be a useful tool when it suits our purposes, however, it is merely a measuring stick, calibrated against what we know of the nature of the universe - all of which may or may not be completely inaccurate.”

Knows Men Life Mind May Purpose Universe Too Much Illusion Concepts Tools Property Sticks Devotion Suits Radical Rationality Constructs Measuring

Author:Derek R. Audette

“I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?”

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.”

Believe Hands Science Seeing Source Illusion Errors Circles Vicious Fallacy Vicious Circles

Author:Clifford Allbutt

“Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.”

Ifs Next Car Buddhism Mindfulness Illusion Perfection Next Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.”

Growth Ignorance Birth Illusion Cycles Decay

Author:Frederick Lenz

“None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.”

Real Ignorance Illusion Shadow Appearance Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

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