(368 quotes found)
“Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do”
Elizabeth Bowen
“What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams”
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want”
Erich Fromm
“There is an old illusion-it is called good and evil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.”
Benjamin Cardozo
“We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.”
George Harrison
“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy”
Cyril Connolly
“Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.”
Fred Rogers
“Stop, shadow of my elusive beloved/ Image of enchantment that I most desire/ Beautiful illusion for whom I happily die/ Sweet fiction for whom I painfully live.”
Juana Ines de la Cruz
“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
