#illusion

I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#any #being #brad #brad pitt #chasing

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#done #escape #great #illusion #mind

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#illusion #lost #those #who #youth

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#build #bunch #fall #i #idea

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#enemy #flattering #friend #illusions #thought

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#anymore #anything #believe #change #changed

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#am #art #consequently #debt #forget

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#first of all #illusion #pleasures

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#any #blindly #follow #hallucination #illusion