1,027 Quotes About Illusion

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.

The world, as you see it, is not real. And the way you imagine it—it does not even come close. Certain things seem obvious to you, but they simply do not exist.”“And you, do you not exist?” Sasha couldn’t help herself. “Are you not real?”Portnov removed the scarf from her face. Under his gaze, she blinked confusedly.“I exist,” he said seriously. “But I am not at all what you think.

A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

But love – don’t we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It’s only 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.

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

Priceless is economic illusion.Costless is an economical trick.