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Quotes About Illusion

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
~ Ramana Maharshi
I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.
~ Lana Del Rey
The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
We live in condensations of our imagination
~ Terence McKenna
Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
~ Thomas Paine
Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
~ Walt Disney
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
~ Cesare Pavese
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.
~ Gary Paulsen
You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
~ Terence McKenna
The sick are victims of their own imagination.
~ Pol Pot
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
~ William Wordsworth
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
~ Josh Billings
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
~ Pascal Mercier
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.
~ Jean Baudrillard
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
~ Meher Baba
It's just a figment of the imagination.
~ Jacob Zuma
You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.
~ Cornell Woolrich
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.
~ Cullen Hightower
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula