Quotes about Illusion

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To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
 — Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be — Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck. — Joss Whedon
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. — Virginia Woolf
There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. — T.S. Eliot
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsew — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with — Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. — Gabriel García Márquez
Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in so — Mehek Bassi, Chained: Can you escape fate?
Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy pe — Stefan Molyneux
Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the inco — Jerry A. Coyne
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as tru — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on cha — Clive Barker
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.Marth — Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultima — Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's p — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. — T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"