“The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.” ― William Faulkner
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day’s end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.” ― H. P. Lovecraft
“Disillusion comes sooner or later, but it always comes, it doesn’t miss an appointment, it never has.” ― Juan Gabriel Vasquez
“Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can’t create it if you don’t have one.” ― Brad Bird
“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.” ― Judy Garland
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” ― Albert Einstein
“There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” ― Voltaire
“Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.Emil Cioran
“Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.” ― George Orwell
“All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.” ― Meher Baba
“Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.” ― Al Pacino
“Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.” ― Voltaire
“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.” ― Stanley Kubrick
“One day, you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Don’t laugh. Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” ― Michael Jordan
“Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.” ― Michael Jordan
“When one illusion doesn’t work then we become disillusioned and we go around with our antennae up looking for another illusion.” ― Anam Thubten
“The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.” ― Wayne Dyer
“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.” ― Cyril Connolly
“Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.” ― Arthur Erickson
“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.” ― Horace Greeley
“I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.Irvin D. Yalom
“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.” ― Voltaire
“When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you. Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.” ― Arthur Koestler
“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.” ― Woody Allen
“The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.” ― Sydney Smith
“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.” ― Robert Burton
