Quotes About Illusions

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking.

Man owns nothing, never will, though he holds on to illusions of such, in the end he finds what is left-character and integrity. And if none be found was he truly here? By Mark Miller

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

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us. —J. G. BALLARD

Maybe life is part of a greater series of interconnections, subtlely guided by an underlying transtemporal panpsychic awareness. Stranger still, we may be just scintillating illusions, extrapolated from deeper realities.

I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.

Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

Few people who knew Trump had illusions about him. That was almost his appeal: he was what he was. Twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.

1. Cellular reality everything consists of small cells, each in its own cell, in which there is a smaller cell and so on to infinity, a prison, not reality, each in its own cell in its own space. Everyone is at the micro-cellular level of perfectionism, morally limited in their cells of egoism. 2. Desires are the karmic nostalgia of deja vu, eternal oblivion in the endless time loops of a vicious childhood of illusions. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

1. Inflation is a coma of frigid impotence, a coma is comical. 2. In the multidimensional symbolism of comic paradoxes, gadgets are nannies of children's illusions of selfishness. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Hope is a modanari 3d drawing on the tarmac of illusions.