1,027 Quotes About Illusion

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

You said you were a fairy princessYou said you were a shooting starYou said we'd go to Bora BoraNow look at where the fuck we are

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

People care much more for how things look than how things are.

That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else -- or else we could not endure.

How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?

Eventually everything appears to disappear from the life. That's it.