Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
~By George Santayana ~
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.
~By Orson Welles ~
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
~By Judy Garland ~
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
~By Kenneth Clark ~
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
~By Rick Renzi ~
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow.
~By Hilary Rosen ~
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
~By Al Goldstein ~
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
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.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
~By Giotto di Bondone ~
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
~By Herman Wouk ~
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
~By Antonio Gramsci ~
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
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.
~By Ralph Thomas Walker ~
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
~By Manly Hall ~
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.
~By Charlie Watts ~
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
~By Tom T. Hall ~
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.
~By Margaret Cho ~
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
~By Douglas Adams ~
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
~By Allan Bloom ~
Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
~By Andre Breton ~
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
Words are illusions.
~By Bodhidharma ~
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
~By Edward Sapir ~
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
~By Robert Burton ~
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
~By Derek Jarman ~
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
~By John Lennon ~
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
~By Stendhal ~
I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
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.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
~By John C. Hawkes ~
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!
~By Judy Holliday ~
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
~By Brooks Atkinson ~
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.
~By Jesse Eisenberg ~
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
~By Javan ~
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
~By Woody Allen ~
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
~By Philip Guston ~
I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.
~By Woody Harrelson ~
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
~By Alan Watts ~
We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.
~By Roma Downey ~
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
~By John Pilger ~
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
~By Grace Jones ~
The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.
~By Craig Bruce ~
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
~By Luis Palau ~
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
~By Arthur J. Goldberg ~
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
~By Lewis H. Lapham ~
The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.
~By Alexander Kerensky ~
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
~By Max Jacob ~
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
~By Simone Weil ~
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
~By Ellis Peters ~
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
~By Talib Kweli ~
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
~By Timothy Zahn ~
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
~By John Coleman ~
I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
~By Alexander Walker ~
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
~By George Lucas ~
Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.
~By Madeleine Peyroux ~
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.
~By Jewel Kilcher ~
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
~By Mario Vargas Llosa ~
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
~By Ramman Kenoun ~
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
~By Andre Maurois ~
The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
~By Talib Kweli ~
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
~By Larry McMurtry ~
What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.
~By Jean Claude Van Damme ~
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
~By Henri Nouwen ~
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
~By John Langdon ~
I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.
~By Tobey Maguire ~
And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.
~By Mel Gibson ~
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.
~By Dan Flavin ~
I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.
~By Victor Salva ~
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
~By Joseph Roux ~
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
~By Brad Bird ~
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
~By Scott Adams ~
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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