Illusion Quotes

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door.

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.

Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else - or else we could not endure.

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

Time is the truth inside an illusion.

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.