1,027 Quotes About Illusion

The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.

What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though.

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows; why one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion.

It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.