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85 phrases of illusion and desire to focus on the future

85 phrases of illusion and desire to focus on the future

March 11, 2024

The term illusion has different meanings. From sensorial illusions, for example, those visual illusions that we have due to the visual perception of images that are false or erroneous; to cognitive illusions, in which our knowledge of the world intervenes.

But illusion is also synonymous with hope or desire , for that reason, phrases like "we begin to get old when we lose the illusion" or "I have recovered the illusion to play again" are part of our everyday language.

Illusion phrases

Maintaining the illusion is essential for us to keep moving and fighting for our dreams. You can find below a selection of phrases about illusion from which to interpret your life experiences.


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1. Limits, such as fear, are often an illusion

Fear can be an illusory belief that prevents us from growing.

2. We were talking about the space between us and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusions. The truth is never glimpsed. Then it's too late when they're gone

If we are not aware in the present moment, we may repent in the future.

3. What is life? Crazy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest goodness is small, since all life is a dream, and dreams are nothing more than dreams

Being able to enjoy this life is the best gift of all.


4. Romantic love is an illusion. Many of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or when the sweet emotions of love lead us to marriage and then put out their flames

Love is feeling, it is hope, it is illusion.

5. The problem lies in how you are going to spend this strange and precious life that you have been given. If you are going to spend trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or if instead, you are going to try it, you will enjoy it and you will find the truth about who you are

Life must be experienced, it is no use living from expectations or dreams.

6. We must know that there is no country on earth where love has not turned lovers into poets

The illusion is also lived. Especially if you are a heart in love .

7. [The horror fiction] shows us that the control that we believe we have is a pure illusion, and that at all times we stagger between chaos and oblivion

Clive Barker leaves us a curious phrase that will make you reflect.


8. How strong is when an illusion dies. It's as hard as when you've lost a child

Do not have hope or goals, it's like being dead in life

9. Dreams give us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of humours, like a necklace with beads, and, as we pass through them, they show us that they are lenses of many colors that paint the world with their own nuance

Having dreams and illusions is what keeps us alive.

10. Religion is an illusion and its strength derives from the fact that it fits with our most instinctive desires

A quote from Sigmund Freud that deals with religious beliefs.

11. If it looks real, and it feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?

The illusions can be seen and felt as something very authentic.

12. An illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade

Many times we hide inside what we really are .

13. Death for young people is shipwreck and for old people is to reach port

When one has fulfilled his illusions and desires, death is the end of the journey.

14. Do not be fooled by what you see around you, nor be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground full of illusions, full of false paths, false values ​​and false ideas.

A quote that affirms that the world is a great illusion.

15. There is an old illusion. It's called good and bad

A short phrase by Friedrich Nietzsche , which, despite its brevity, is full of meaning.

16. There is an optical illusion about each person we know

For us, people are what we perceive of them.

17. If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, that can create the comforting illusion that the problem has been mastered

When there is no grudge, it is that the bad has been solved.

18. It is much harder to kill a ghost than to kill a reality

When the past haunts us, it's hard to forget it.

19. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is kindness

The great Leo Tolstoy gives us this beautiful appointment full of meaning.

twenty.Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world

The world we live in is the world that we interpret and perceive.

21. My biggest hope is to continue having illusions

Having illusions is what keeps us motivated and keeps us alive.

22. Television gives us topics to think about, but it does not leave us time to do it

New technologies cause us to receive an excess of information.

23. Do not reject your dreams. Without the illusion the world that would be?

In bad times, the illusion of a better place can make us move forward.

24. If you want your children to have their feet on the ground, place some responsibility on their shoulders

Illusions are the engine that makes us travel through life.

25. You can never have me without opening your desire about the nakedness that seals the ineffable, nor will you find my lips while something concrete roots your love

A beautiful phrase of the illusion that awakens a person that we love

26. The only thing we have to fear is that heaven falls on our heads. It is useless to return to what has been and is not already

The illusion is in the future. The past can no longer be recovered.

27. Smart people have a right over the ignorant: the right to instruct them

A very real phrase that says a lot and makes you think in depth. One of the most inspiring phrases about illusion .

28. Only illusions help us live. A man who knew the whole truth, should sit on the edge of a road and cry to death

The real truth can be really depressing.

29. Lost illusions are leaves, detached from the heart tree

You can not live a happy life without hope.

30. Fortune tires of always carrying the same man on his back

Money is a motivation and an illusion for many.

31. The castle of his illusions has come without a crash, without a trace, it has vanished like a dream; and he does not even realize he's been dreaming

A poetic phrase of how the illusion can vanish

32. There is something that gives splendor to everything that exists, and it is the illusion of finding something around the corner

The illusion can make us reborn. It can help us come out afloat.

33. Losing an illusion, it hurts. Losing them all, kills

A man without illusions is a man without life.

34. The difference between the past, the present and the future is only a persistent illusion

Albert Einstein, a phrase full of meaning that deals with illusion over time.

35. How long are we going to continue believing that happiness is only one of the games of illusion?

Happiness can only be experienced in the present moment.

36. The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others

Many enjoy the misfortunes of others.

37. It is undoubtedly an evil, to be full of defects; but it is still a greater evil to be full of them and not to want to recognize it, because it is still to add that of a voluntary illusion

The illusion, if it is an irrational belief, It can seriously harm us .

38. Love does not exist, it's just an illusion

Love lives from expectations, from the image we have created of the other person.

39. Let me escape from the lying and criminal illusion of happiness! Give me work, fatigue, pain and enthusiasm

Pursue the illusion of happiness Constantly and obsessively makes you really unhappy

40. What we call family pride is often founded on an illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate himself and immortalize himself

An expression of Alexis De Tocqueville on the belief of pride in the family.

41. People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. People would prefer to believe in another reality, although this is a mere illusion, while it makes them feel bigger

Seeing things as they really are can mean breaking with the old schemes.

42. In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusions, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves of our appetites and our will towards false power

Living of illusions may seem calm, but in the long run it is bad.

43. I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and only what there is

The only time we can live is the present, the rest are illusions.

44. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion

Living from the past is an illusion. Living from the future is an illusion. The only thing we can experience is the present .

45. Before I got married, I had six theories about how to educate children. Now I have six children and no theory

When you do not have children you have an imaginary idea of ​​what it is to have them . Live it changes that idea, because of the realization that you were wrong.

46. ​​If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and well-being, between good and evil, is also a simple illusion

Everything that goes through our mind is interpreted by us , we want it or not, since we never see things as they are.

47. Rooting is the greatest illusion maker; reality can only be reached by those who are uprooted

Emotional detachment is one of the best ways to be happy

48. A morality system which is based on relative emotional values ​​is a mere illusion, a completely vulgar conception, which has no sound in it and has nothing real

A phrase of Socrates that deals with morality and how it is constructed by human beings.

49. The action is consoling. She is the enemy of the thought and the friend of the flattering illusions

Nothing happens to have illusions. But if we want to achieve what we propose, it is necessary to move and act.

50. Illusionary joy is often more valuable than genuine pain

If we believe in something firmly, this it has an effect on how we feel .

51. Decorate your house. That gives you the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is

The idea that our environment affects us is not new.

52. The illusion? That costs dearly. It was hard for me to live longer than I should have

The illusions that we have can keep us alive and active.

53. It is excellent to have illusions in life ... But while, do not seek to materialize them ... Only dreams are ...!

The illusions can make us spend pleasant moments, but they are not always possible.

54. Ugliness is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and it is also supposed to be the worst crime that can be committed as a woman. But ugliness, as well as beauty, is nothing but illusions

A curious quote from Margaret Cho that may have different interpretations.

55. Every trip to the past is complicated due to disappointments, false memories and false names of real events

The disappointments They make us feel a huge sadness. A phrase of illusion that deals with the other side of the coin of desire .

56. The people never renounce their freedoms but under the delusion of an illusion

The illusion of something better can make us sacrifice something we have

57. Illusion is the first of all pleasures

The illusion can be positive because it makes us feel good.

58. Dreamy women are usually an optical illusion

Many will never come to have a relationship with pretty women

59. Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world

What we see is not the real world, but the construction we make of the world.

60. Tradition is the illusion of permanence

The always great, Woody Allen, leaves us this great phrase.

61. Fantasy is a static bicycle for the mind. Maybe I can not take you anywhere, but it gives tone to the muscles that can

The brain can trick us into filling the void.

62. Tango is the pain of misunderstanding, the agony of waiting and the illusion of a hug

Sharing the steps of tango with a woman can make a man dream.

63. Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is a projection. We suffer more for our fictitious illusions and for the expectations of reality

It is not what happens that causes us suffering, but the idea that we have about what happens.

64. I long for the daily light of my existence ... Tell you that you are my best illusion, my life, my charm, my tenderness, my everything

Loving that person that you consider special is, without doubt, a beautiful illusion.

65. To have illusions is to live

No illusions, a person can not be motivated because it remains motionless.

66. In the shade, far from the light of day, melancholy sighs on the sad bed, the pain at his side, and the migraine on his head

When the illusion is lost, one walks aimlessly.

67. No, our science is not an illusion. But an illusion would be to suppose that what science can not give us can be found anywhere else

A quote from Sigmund Freud that deals with illusion and science.

68. Poetry of love ... cheap words to break the soul and create an illusion

A phrase that speaks of poetry and how words can excite us.

69. Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, therefore what you see is not what you see

What we see is a construction that we have done about how can reality be interpreted .

70. It is proper for the philosopher to be able to speculate about all things

Speculation is not something real and tangible, but an expectation or illusion.

71. The illusion is the younger sister of disappointment

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a phrase that relates illusion to disappointment.

72. All religions, my friend, are simply made of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry

Religions, although some do not believe it, live on the illusion of people.

73. What is life? A frenzy What is life? An illusion. All life is a dream

What we believe is real, is actually a construction that we have made.

74. We waste valuable time in dreams, born of the imagination, fed by illusion, and brought to death by reality

We waste too much time of our lives navigating in unreal expectations.

75. I do not deny the rights of democracy; but I have no illusions about the use that will be made of those rights while wisdom is lacking and pride abounds

It is not the same to live in a democracy as to live in the illusion of democracy.

76. The young person is happy because he has the ability to see the beautiful

This phrase of Kafka highlights the positive perception that characterizes youth.

77. The world is full of magical things waiting to be discovered

An inspired phrase about the wonders of nature and culture.

78. Write in your heart that every day is the best day of your life

This famous phrase by Ralph Waldo Emerson fills everything with optimism.

79. Whoever wants to find a positive side to all their experiences, gets it

An anonymous phrase about how desire influences our illusion.

80. The happiest and wildest hearts are the only ones really free

Character and vitality make the difference.

81. You have to know how we manage the time we spend to marvel

Experiencing life is something that also depends on decisions.

82. Making discoveries a habit is something that characterizes happy people

Every day can be full of little moments of glory .

83. In a moment we can feel everything we have not felt in a year

The feelings follow a logic that seems to transcend time.

84. The illusion makes us reach incredible goals

The desire moves us to improve ourselves.

85. It's never too late to go for it with all our strength

We are always in a position to set objectives.


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