Quotes About Illusion

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

I think I can sing, but that does not mean I can actually sing. I fear that I'm like one of those 'American Idol' contestants who truly believe they are good and are actually dreadful.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

As men, we have the illusion that we run the world.

The soul is an illusion.

Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.

This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion.

If your eyes are far apart, bringing the brow shape closer together gives the illusion of shorter distance between the eyes.

I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.