Quotes About Illusions

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

Idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

Mental prison: The illusions and unproductive thinking that limit our ability to see the world clearly and act upon it rationally.

Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

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

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

A Zendo is not a peaceful haven but a furnace room for the combustion of our egotistical delusions.

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Listen, my dear, she said, this can't go on, you can't live in two worlds at once, in the world of reality and the world of dreams, that kind of thing leads to hallucinations, you're like a sleepwalker walking through a landscape with your arms outstretched, and everything you touch becomes part of your dream, even me, a fat old woman weighing one hundred seventy-five, I can feel myself dissolving into the air at the touch of your hand, as if I was becoming part of your dream too.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

Where we encounter the naïve in art, we should recognize the highest effect of Apollinian culture--which always must first overthrow an empire of Titans and slay monsters, and which must have triumphed over an abysmal and terrifying view of the world and the keenest susceptibility to suffering through recourse to the most forceful and pleasurable illusions.

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions. from On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense

He who destroys the illusions in himself and others is punished by nature, the cruelest tyrant.

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

George Bernard Shaw once said, "It is a pity that youth has been wasted on the young." The contrary is true. It is no secret at all that the Good Lord knew that it was better to put the illusions of life at the beginning in order that as we grew closer to eternity, we might the better see the purpose of living.

Illusions, distortions, and self-deception appear to be integral to the way normal, well-adjusted people perceive the world. Seeing things as they really are is associated with depression and low self-esteem.

In short, social convention and beliefs are nothing but air.