Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion.
In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.
A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.
When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession.
adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.
I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.
When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.
If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.
I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.
Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
God is like an umbrella of illusion and belief, In rainy days we use him, in sunny days we forget him.
The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change.
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
