Looking for that "silver lining" is the ultimate wild goose chase.

Love is an illusion made real by suffering.

Fame is an illusion of self-importance.

The chains that bind us to a life of servitude exist only in our minds.

The tragic view is the most cheerful. One sheds a lot of illusions and learns to laugh a lot.

Fame is the illusion that one person has more value than another.

To expose all the illusions of mankind without condemning a single one.

Even they have died who said death is an illusion.

Prayers, hopes and wishes belong to the family of illusions.