Illusion Quotes
For the gap between what seems true and what is.
Looking back, youth often seems carefree only to those who no longer have it - a trick of memory as much as anything real. This collection sits alongside our Life quotes on perception and time.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these...
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very passionate about it, and you don't want to burst that bubble; you don't want to break that illusion....
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a 'regular partner,' a state that occasionally violates laws, not unlike any army during World War II, occasionally...
I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.
We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.
No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the...
Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in...
