Quotes About Illusion

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.

Happiness is a rare cosmetic.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.

Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..

The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on