Quotes of: Illusions Keyword

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

The Black Banner

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

The Book of Disquiet

Illusions may flatter us, confuse us, or betray us, Drakkonwehr. Or they may be images we cling to when the truth is too difficult to face.

Bloodstone

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

Doug Henning

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Peter Abrahams

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

Yayoi Kusama

It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.

Illusive Intrusion

Well, one shouldn't smoke when he's drunk and one mustn't fall in love with a girl who isn't the right religion.

Illusions of Love

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

Ragtime

Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.

River of Stars

The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but in their heads, they’re imagining a hundred different things.

Rework

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.

Sacred

Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.

Shattered Illusions

I don't know where I am- somewhere between heaven and hell, a place of utter terror and endless confusion.

Shattered Illusions

Timing is always off. Someone is always late, always lost, always looking back to the start of a reality that they didn't want to begin with.

Shattered Illusions

Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.

The Map of the Sky

I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.

Night Vision