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Some illusions ... are the shadows of great truths.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The only things that give it the illusion of being one country are the green-back, The Tonight Show, and McDonald's.
— Neil Gaiman
Civilisation is hooped together, broughtUnder a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion ... — William Butler Yeats
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
— Milan Kundera
Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.
— Molly Friedenfeld
I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.
— Friedrich Hayek
Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend was nothing but an illusion.
— Leo Tolstoy
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway.
— Nenia Campbell
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most ... he saw fireflies where there were none.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot
— Jack Kerouac
Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.
— Noel Coward
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
— August Strindberg
Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
— Courtney Milan
The most dangerous thing is illusion.
— Corban Addison
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
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.- Blanche Scene II — Tennessee Williams
...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.
— Jordan Castillo Price
I'm glad to be part of the war on sadness. I'm a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.
— Marc Maron
I quickly learned that the illusion of appearance will always outweigh the truth of what's really inside.
— Carian Cole
We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.
— Bernard Williams
Stop living in the illusion that some ones anointing will help you rip from where you have not sown
— Sunday Adelaja
We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.
— Holland Cotter
When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. [ ... ] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.
— Jim Thompson
When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
— Philip K. Dick
Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.
— Donna Lynn Hope
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Don't be stupid, privacy is an illusion in today's electronic world. And i always investigate the people who interest me
— Shannon McKenna
People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.
— Soroosh Shahrivar
The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice ...
— Henry Lindell
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
Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.
— James Rozoff
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
— Erwin McManus
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,that is the secret of the fine arts. — Joseph Joubert
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.
— Marya Hornbacher
The greatest illusion of the abstract ego is that it can do anything to bring about radical improvement either in itself or in the world.
— Alan W. Watts
This is what selfishness does: it fills you with the illusion of separation
— Dimitris Mamakos
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.
— Emile M. Cioran
Funny how the illusion of safety can make us careless.
— Christopher Moore
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
— Kevin McCloud
What greater fetter to anchoring ourselves to the false notion of self could there be than a selfie? It is named after an illusion!
— Chris Matakas
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
— Woody Allen
The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion).
— Dada Bhagwan
A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.
— Albert Camus
Christ's love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.
— Pope Francis
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
— Vernon Howard
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.
— Daniel Kahneman
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.
— Shirley Maclaine
Our greatest national illusion is that a healthy society can be organized around the single-minded pursuit of wealth.
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.
— Naoki Higashida
That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor.
— David Gilmour
Maybe that's what love is, in the end: a shared illusion of safety.
— Amanda Eyre Ward
To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.
— Frederick Lenz
The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.
— Daniel Kahneman
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
— Henrik Ibsen
Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.
— Swami Vivekananda
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
— Stanley Kubrick
The illusion of hope is Hell's greatest joy.
— Greg F. Gifune
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.
— Graham Swift
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
— Sue Miller
It is not what we say to each other every day that establishes all the meaning and beauty and truth, it is everything we think before we speak
— Tor Norretranders
Free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
— Tamora Pierce
Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.
— Peter Akinola
The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
— William John Locke
We live lives of illusion and miss the incredible reality that exists in every present moment.
— Marshall Stern
