Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Anonymous
Reality is an illusion caused by lack of alcohol.
Conrad Joseph 1857-1924
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Godwin William 1756-1836
An Enquiry...
Love of our country is another of those specious illusions, which have been invented by impostors in order to render the multitude the
blind instruments of their crooked designs.
Gowers Sir Ernest 1880-1966
Plain Words
It is not easy nowadays to remember anything so contrary to all appearances as that officials are the servants of the public; and the official must try not to foster
the illusion that it is the other way round.
Koestler Arthur 1905-1983
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Martin-Wieland Christoph
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
Murdoch Dame Iris
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion.
The great task in life is to find reality.
Petronius d. AD 65
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be re-organized. I was to learn later in life
that we tend to meet any new situation by re-organizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while
producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
Pirandello Luigi 1867-1936
You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Stoppard Tom 1937-
Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (c/f Kipling of Max Aitken)
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to
subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the
eunuch throughout the ages.
Miller Arthur
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Mitchell Joni
„Both Sides Now"
I've looked at life from both sides now,
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall;
I really don't know life at all.
Wharton Edith 1862-1937
The Descent of Man „The Other Two"
If he paid for each day's comfort with the small change of his illusions, he grew daily to value the comfort more and set less
store upon the coin.