Quotes About Illusion

A delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

Not seeing is half-believing.

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

The cunning livery of hell.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

No man is a hero to his own wife; no woman is a wife to her own hero.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.