Quotes with illusions

  • The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
  • Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

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  • Mark Twain Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Roux Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Marianne Moore War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Joseph Conrad Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
    Nostromo
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Simone Weil Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Tim O'Brien Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
    Tomcat in Love (2011) 319
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Breckin Meyer For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.
    Breckin Meyer
    American actor, writer, producer, and drummer (1974 - )
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  • Henry Miller Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Hanif Kureishi How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
    Intimacy (2010) 83
    Hanif Kureishi
    British playwright, filmmaker and novelist (1954 - )
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  • Bob Dylan I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Carl Sagan If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.
    Cosmos (1980) p. 67
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Sigmund Freud Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
    The Poisonwood Bible
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • John F. Kennedy I’m an idealist without illusions.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Jordan Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Cat Stevens Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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