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Quotes About Illusion

In antihistory, time is an illusion.
~ Jill Lepore
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
~ Jodi Picoult
Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.
~ John C. Reilly
My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.
~ John Cusack
It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.
~ John Steinbeck
Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.
~ Leo Tolstoy
For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.
~ Albert Einstein
We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity.
~ Anna M. Aquino
The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it,
~ Stewart Stafford
Time is but an illusion created by beings with limited perception.
~ Ken Poirot
The illusion is time itself.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
If you think that you can outrun time, you must be thinking fiction.
~ Syed Basit Naqvi
In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
~ Warren Spector
Time is deceptive, it gives you an impression that its with you but passes away without your knowledge
~ Topsy Gift
... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.
~ José Saramago, The Cave
We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.
~ Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
I'm in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.
~ Moryah DeMott, Timeless
We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.
~ Dean Cavanagh
Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Time travel was only a kind of magic, after all. That's why it always went wrong.
~ Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right
~ they could also be deadly.
Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone.
~ Amitav Chowdhury
Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy.
~ Lionel Suggs