Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane. — Lobsang Rampa
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. — Frederick Lenz
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. — Voltaire
God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion ! — Rumi
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
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. — David Icke
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
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. — Minna Antrim
What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth. — Sarada Devi
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. — Voltaire
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. — Georges Bernanos
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Control is an illusion, let it be, and enjoy the peace.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. — Ludwig Borne
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies. — Monica Bellucci
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. — Sandy Wilson
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly present illusion.
Everything Is Just An Illusion Quotes
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination. — Frederick Lenz
We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion. — Freddie Highmore
The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion. — Marianne Williamson
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all. — Joe Strummer
Illusion Life Quotes
A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth. — Marion Woodman
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made. — Walter Brueggemann
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. — W. H. Auden
Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion. — Neville Goddard
Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion. — Mata Hari
Safety isn't just an illusion, it's a cop-out. I know it sounds trite, but there's simply nothing like a near-death experience to remind one of the impermanence of everything. And living imprisoned by fear only to die with regret over dreams postponed was a life neither of us was interested in. — Rich Roll
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t. — Byron Katie
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
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. — Brad Bird
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life — Chuck Jones
World Is An Illusion Quotes
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. — Salvador Dali
This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
So is all conditioned existence to be seen. — Buddha
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. — Steven Pinker
The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.
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. — Natan Sharansky
Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. — Adyashanti
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. — Buddha
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. — Herman Hesse
I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon. — Dave Franco
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. — Angela Carter
Life Is An Illusion Quotes
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy. — Blaise Pascal
Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion. — Leon Brown
Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body. — Steve Pavlina
There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless. — Dada Vaswani
I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me. — Michael Jordan
I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content. — Robert E. Howard
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad
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
The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation. — Danielle LaPorte
Reality Is An Illusion Quotes
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway
Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol. — N. F. Simpson
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one. — Albert Einstein
Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application. — Voltaire
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol. — W. C. Fields
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. — Arnold Newman
It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth. — Mary Antin
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. — Ruth Bernhard
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. — Edward Sapir
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. — Herman Wouk
Love Is An Illusion Quotes
Cupid is anything but cute. As for handing our hearts, he’s more likely to rip them out. (Julian) But he can make people fall in love. (Selena) No. What he offers is an illusion. No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. — Thomas Moore
Do what you love. Love what you do. Take less. Give more. Never quit. Never follow. Be passionate. Be bold. Be honest. Respect people. Respect the environment. Always bring out the best in your family and friends. Change is the only constant. Fear is an illusion. Attitude is everything. — Sonnie Trotter
You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us? — Nawal El Saadawi
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion. — Pema Chodron
We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined. — Marianne Williamson
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world. — Tom Holt
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit. — Oscar Wilde
Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion. — Jaggi Vasudev
This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed. — Dana Gioia
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning. — Phil Woods
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one. — Antonin Scalia
Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party. — Noam Chomsky
Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day. — Francisco Franco
All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light. — Rumi
You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom. — Immortal Technique
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. — S. N. Goenka
Illusions Of Life Quotes
Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life. — Caroline Myss
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions. — Edward Albee
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 is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead. — Harmony Korine
In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps. — Italo Calvino
Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort. — Larry Crabb
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it. — Patricia Piccinini
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life. — Mahmoud Darwish
Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art. — Joseph Joubert
All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness". — Barbara Brennan
Time Is An Illusion Quotes
I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. . .Failure always made me try harder next time. — Michael Jordan
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep." — H. P. Blavatsky
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now. — Marina Abramovic
...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all. — Carl Jung
Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time — Karl Kraus
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion. — T. S. Eliot
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. — Eckhart Tolle
It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes. — Satish Kumar
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement. — William Golding
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
Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to. — Mumia Abu-Jamal
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart. — Bill Hicks
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. — Vladimir Putin
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. — Frank Zappa
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes. — Jack Kornfield
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion. — C. Wright Mills
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal
all this pain is an illusion. — Maynard James Keenan
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved. — W. Somerset Maugham
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart? — Nicholas Sparks
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
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