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Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck

The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. — Charlene Spretnak

Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality. — Debasish Mridha

Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in — Fola

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality. — Robert Breault

Life is an illusion because we still don't know what reality is. — Debasish Mridha

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. — Yukio Mishima

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion? — Rumi

Never deny yourself any pleasure, real or imaginary. — Marty Rubin

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion. — Alan Watts

Reality is a perceptual illusion we have accepted as truth. — Debasish Mridha

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality. — H.P. Lovecraft

Life is an illusion of the reality which we want or wish — Saurabh Mathur

Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can't do. — Marty Rubin

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. — Mike Mills

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized. — Adi Shankaracarya

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me ... — Criss Angel

Juggling is an illusion ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession ... It is actually task switching. — Gary Keller

The novelist uses facts to create a fiction about life. The pornographer uses sexual reality to create sexual illusion. — Marty Rubin

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion. — Jim Steinmeyer

Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead. — Philip K. Dick

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion. — Judith Guest

Control is merely an illusion we construct to cope with the chaos that is reality. — Fred Bubbers

Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can't see.
- Lady Lalaigne — Jeanine Henning

People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories. — Soroosh Shahrivar

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

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. — Karen Traviss

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau

Illusion close to reality was your love, you certainly are quintessential with your licks and promises. — Na

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. — Virginia Woolf

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. — Albert Einstein

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. — Clive Barker

The world is real; philosophy is the illusion. — Marty Rubin

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion. — E'yen A. Gardner

There is no fact or fiction, reality or illusion, there is only the trick of perception. — Debasish Mridha

Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation ... — Northrop Frye

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. — Publilius Syrus

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

This world you think you know? It's hidden ... in shards of reality. — Zechariah Barrett

What was reality? An objective truth? A collective illusion? A majority opinion? The product of historical understanding? A bream? — Matt Haig

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol. — N. F. Simpson

For in the depths of grief, sometimes one cannot tell the difference between illusion and reality. — Malinda Lo

If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality? — Lionel Suggs

The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer. — Lionel Suggs

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. — Salman Rushdie

We live lives of illusion and miss the incredible reality that exists in every present moment. — Marshall Stern

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil

It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality. — Lionel Suggs

Our stories are phantoms of fleeting moments reflected in mirrors. — Dennis Vickers

I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide. — Martha Cooley

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion. — Wole Soyinka

What I have shown you is reality. What you remember, that is the illusion — Sephiroth

Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade. — Kasie West

A Coy Aversion

...a flutter
too shy
to be seen... — Muse

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. — Herman Wouk

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol. — W.C. Fields

Like the very quantum particles we study, we must be comfortable allowing our view of the world to exist in superposition. — Kevin Michel

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion. — Lee Strobel

Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream. — George Sand

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. — Ruth Bernhard

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin. — James Woods

Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane. — Lobsang Rampa

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. — Salvador Dali

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. — Max Jacob

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. — Luigi Pirandello

You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind. — Kevin Michel

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. — Parker Palmer

The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Impostor. — H.P. Lovecraft

You cannot rise beyond the external as well as internal reality unless you understand your own perception. — Roshan Sharma

The illusion is we are only physical. — Vanna Bonta

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. — Nicolas Chamfort

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even. — Judith Guest

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation ... the essence of minstrel. — John Trudell

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. — Theodor Adorno