9. This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.
Jack Abbott

10. She Had Stripped Away Her Own Illusions For Him, And That Was As Seductive A Thing As Any Woman Could Do
Deanna Raybourn

11. Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly
Anonymous

12. If you see the Illusion, you are enlightened, but if you think you are enlightened, you are in the illusion. Papaji

13. The only things that aren't illusions are those we're able to feel not outside but inside our heart
Anonymous

14. If you can embrace being wrong; if you can be free of illusion; if you can question everything; including yourself; that's openness
Anonymous

15. Allied to this question is the kindred question on which we so often hear an innocent British boast—the fact that our statesmen are privately on very friendly relations, although in Parliament they sit on opposite sides of the House. Here, again, it is as well to have no illusions. Our statesmen are not monsters of mystical generosity or insane logic, who are really able to hate a man from three to twelve and to love him from twelve to three. If our social relations are more peaceful than those of France or America or the England of a hundred years ago, it is simply because our politics are more peaceful; not improbably because our politics are more fictitious. If our statesmen agree more in private, it is for the very simple reason that they agree more in public. And the reason they agree so much in both cases is really that they belong to one social class; and therefore the dining life is the real life. Tory and Liberal statesmen like each other, but it is not because they are both expansive; it is because they are both exclusive.
G. K. Chesterton

16. Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.
Henry S. Haskins

17. The soul has illusions as the bird has wings it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo

18. I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
Conrad Veidt

19. Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist
Friedrich Nietzsche

20. With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you – that’s my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you
Osho

21. These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again
John Lennon

22. All illusions must be destroyed. Shadows Fall (The Art of balance)
Anonymous

23. Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world – don’t get me started. But don’t you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that ‘choice’ used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?
Lynne Truss

24. At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.
Aprilynne Pike

25. Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
Javan

26. Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success
Anonymous

27. Perfection Is An Illusion Those Who Seek Perfection Will Find Themselves Unfulfilled Their Whole Lives
Anonymous

28. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking

29. I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
Taylor Caldwell

30. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno

31. Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

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32. Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne

33. The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions.
Helen Rowland

34. A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
Helen Rowland

35. When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
Walter Russell

36. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil

37. It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude Stein

38. Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces
Sigmund Freud

39. Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal

40. If you believe illusions to be real, and reality to be illusions, you will never achieve inner peace."
Anonymous

41. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

42. When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn’t any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl.
Marguerite Young

43. Some people are living the illusions of others, instead of living the truth of themselves.
Jackov Kanani

44. Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion
Anonymous

45. Art is the illusion of spontaneity
Anonymous

46. Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Friedrich Nietzsche

47. If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
Marguerite Young

48. Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

49. You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions.
Tennessee Williams

50. There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

51. Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

52. Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde

53. Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality
Anonymous

54. Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Richard Bach

55. Open minded people embrace being wrong, are free of illusions, don't mind what people think of them, and question everything even themselves
Anonymous

56. The Pain of Truth is much better than the bliss of an illusion
Anonymous

57. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

58. My illusion, my mistake
Anonymous

59. For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Emile M. Cioran

60. It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.
Phil White

61. Let go of limiting illusions that have held you back from knowing that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

62. Official truths are often powerful illusions.
John Pilger