1,027 Quotes About Illusion

Sometimes deception is in our eyes and we need to believe more than others need to lie.

We come into the world naked, procreate and bring forth another life in our naked being and we leave this world behind in our nakedness. Yet, we all live in our grandeur naked illusions!

A friend once told me that no good would ever come from a lie. But I don't agree. I think sometimes people don't really want the truth. They want to believe the best in people and smashing that illusion feels just as cruel.

Only the pleasures of the now are real. Everything else is but an illusion.

Accepting Love today makes any kind of suffering nothing but an illusion.

Finally I asked my friend Judy, who spent many years as a student of Sufism and who embodies fana—the self-annihilating love of God—as well as anyone I know. When I asked her to define spirituality for me, she thought for a moment and said, ‘Spirituality is the active pursuit of the God you didn’t make up.’ I loved that. I also did not know what it meant.

Nothing is merely in the past, nor hoped for purely the future. Everything is within the eternal present and all the rest is a kind of illusion.

Forever' is an illusion and 'Never' is an exaggeration.

Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.