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Quotes About Illusion

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.
~ Julie Burchill
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
~ Alistair Cooke
Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.
~ Carol Leifer
I wanted a fake wedding in Jamaica.
~ Mandy Moore
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.
~ Jagadish Chandra Bose
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
~ Alan Watts
This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
~ Muhammad Ali
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
~ Ludwig Borne
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
~ Jack Kerouac
The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days
~ Hafez
The trouble is you think you have time.
~ Gautama Buddha
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
~ Gautama Buddha
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
~ Atisa
Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
~ Eric Idle
When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.
~ David Eddings
When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.
~ Laozi
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.
~ Burton Malkiel
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
~ George Orwell
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
~ Margaret Mead