1,027 Quotes About Illusion

If only the wanderer could have seen the real city. He imagined it beautiful and untainted, a forgotten relic of bygone days

Within the elaborate tableau of illusions weaved by every optimist lies a cynic longing to escape from its cave. This is not a world redeemed, but one saturated with oppression and misery. That is its currency. I feel as if I am Atlas, but instead of carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders, I am crushed beneath its injustice

If you can't even tell which hand the coin is in, what makes you think you know anything else?

Fame is an illusion of self-importance.

Memory is reminiscence of few last moments, It can make you nostalgic on things that never happened.

Our conscious mind tries hard to preserve the illusion that it deliberately chose every action you have ever taken; in reality, in many of these decisions it was a bystander at best, and much of the time it did not even notice the decision being made.

You have the illusion of elections and we, the corporations, will purchase the elected government through lobbying and donations.

Don’t you mind dying, sir?” the consul asked. “Forgive me a little lofty talk,” van Gulik said, “but all movement is illusory. From Seoul toKobe. From life to death.

But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence [...] truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to 'be the highest degree of sacredness.