Quotes About Illusions

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

This wasn't a place for illusions; the reality here was the genuine happiness that came about from the natural magic of standing next to someone and being consumed by the fortitude in his or her humanity.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru status to dull business people. It fits in with capitalism's anti-mythic myth: the idea that we have liberated ourselves from the dangerous illusions allegedly propagated by art and politics.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

Don't part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Love can make people do funny things, inexplicable things. And thwarted love can turn some people into madmen--or madwomen. People who never had much of a grip on reality, sometimes they spin pretty illusions ... and when the illusion shatters, they become capable of anything.

Reuben nails my fantasies everytime, with iron rods of reality. He asserts that I am going to die, but probably not for a while, and that maybe I should try getting married and having a life first. He is 70 and knows things, which is why I go to him. But it's sad to leave my romantic illusions at the door of this passage. Although false and destructive and useless, they've been tremendous company.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ...

Maybe, the lesson we can all learn from the inner sadness of a Narcissist is to see through our own fabrications, our own illusions so that we can be set free to be real once more.

What is stripped away is not our humanity but our idolatries, not faith but our false hopes, not meaning but out illusions. Dying in order to live.

Disneyland is a text through which we can look back and reexperience the hopes and fears, the beliefs and illusions, of a postwar generation in the throes of creating the place we know as suburban Southern California.

I can't run around falling in love with fantasies.

We are awkward at espousing the illusions of our fellow men, but we do not want to be so stupid as to drop out of step.

They are prompted by the experience of life itself. Fragile, brief, full of illusions.

In our seeking for the lost Child, our contemplation of Our Lady becomes active. The fiat was complete surrender. Advent was a folding upon the life growing in our darkness. Now the seeking is a going out from ourselves. It is a going out from our illusions, our limitations, our wishful thinking, our self-loving, and the self in our love.

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but refuse. They cling to the realm, or love, or the gods…illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. But they'll never know this. Not until it's too late.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.