When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.

We are the fingertips of blind illusion, You are the absolute Cause of causes.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

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