Illusion Quotes

You're a dream. Like everything else.

Kelly Creagh

Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.

Edward Lewis Wallant

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passing many unglamorous hours on off-peak cable TV. It was actually Vidal's great foe William F. Buckley who launched my part-time television career, by inviting me on to when I was still quite young, and giving me one of the American Right's less towering intellects as my foil. The response to the show made my day, and then my week. Yet almost every time I go to a TV studio, I feel faintly guilty. This is pre-eminently the 'soft' world of dream and illusion and 'perception': it has only a surrogate relationship to the 'hard' world of printed words and written-down concepts to which I've tried to dedicate my life, and that surrogate relationship, while it, too, may be 'verbal,' consists of being glib rather than fluent, fast rather than quick, sharp rather than pointed. It means reveling in the fact that I have a meretricious, want-it-both-ways side. My only excuse is to say that at least I do not pretend that this is not so.

Christopher Hitchens

For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.

Eugene Ionesco

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Miguel de Cervantes

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.

Kurt Vonnegut

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Bertrand Russell

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

George Eliot

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

Eden Phillpotts

People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

Alexander Herzen

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

Voltaire

We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Cyril Connolly

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

Sigmund Freud

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Mark Twain

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

Susan Shaughnessy