236 Quotes About Illusions

Hunger is just an illusion that cannot be shared with an enemy.

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution. Yet many of us continue to find solace in illusions, in conformity to systematical oppression, in distractions that keep us mentally, socially and often physically retarded.

The conquered roam free in the box of insanity.

Things are often not what they seem. And then, sometimes they are. The trick is to learn what is real.

It is important for us to develop the ability to differentiate between truth and fiction to escape from the darkness of ignorance and be in the light of understanding. Only when we know the truth as it is, we can be free from the illusions of life.

Now, you see darkly through a mirror of metaphors, but through your clouded perceptions, the complete spectrum of human emotions will illuminate your world with the divine light of the ever-expanding truth.It is precisely this vast world of billions of people that will show you the truth of your existence.

Sometimes we create images of the people we love and hate in our minds, and those images override what we see with our eyes, even when they are right in front of us. Even if we've imagined them to be monsters, to see them as they truly are with our eyes and our hearts is sometimes shocking.

But a man must live. Not for nothing do we invest so much of ourselves in other people's lives—or even in momentary pictures of people we do not know. It cuts both ways: the happy group inside the lighted window, the figure in long grass in the orchard seen from the train stay and support us in our dark hours. Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.