1,027 Quotes About Illusion

What is reality after all," he said. "Did we not invent all this, are we not God, any and all of us?" He spread his own elegant hand on the table. "I could pass my hand through the wood as if through water. Any man, any woman, could do it. No chains, no bindings. It's a world of chaos restrained solely by the human mind, which then, afraid of itself, steps back and says, see this colossal machine over which I have no power at all.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.

Klara has always known she’s meant to be a bridge: between reality and illusion, the present and the past, this world and the next. She just has to figure out how.

What’s life? A frenzied, blurry haze.What’s life? Not anything it seems.A shadow. Fiction filling reams.All we possess on earth means nil,For life’s a dream, think what you will,And even all our dreams are dreams.

We live in a world where illusion reigns and reality is frowned upon.