Illusion Quotes

The entire stage is an illusion, from beginning to end. The curtain, the lights, even the audience – all part of the grand trick.

But is there a truth behind this illusion? Or do we live in an endless series of mirrors, each reflecting the other, none of them real? It's an art, yes, but also a means of escape, of distortion, of creating worlds that exist only in our minds.

Every **quote** here is a question about what we see, what we believe, and what illusion we live in: the illusion of reality, and false truth.

Quote by Thomas Sowell: Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is.  So long as politicians can create ...
Quote by Soren Kierkegaard: Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unrea...
Quote by Victor Hugo: Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed....
Quote by Michael Jordan: Limits, like fear, is often an illusion....
Quote by Lao Tzu: We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only th...
Quote by Maya Angelou: I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world wa...
Quote by Carl Jung: I know every numbskull will babble on about
Quote by Voltaire: All is but illusion and disaster....
Quote by Virginia Woolf: Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion....
Quote by Rumi: You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck....
Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's boot...
Quote by Franz Kafka: The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a momen...
Quote by Elbert Hubbard: Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession....
Quote by Ray Bradbury: Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending....
Quote by Rumi: I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything...
Quote by Alan Watts: When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you ar...
Quote by Dalai Lama: Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misappreh...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments...
Quote by Robert Frost: We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows....
Quote by Albert Einstein: The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names,...
Quote by William Shakespeare: the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss som...
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: Isn't it pretty to think so....
Quote by Blaise Pascal: If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. A...
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they ...
Quote by Marilyn Monroe: It's all make believe, isn't it?...
Quote by William Shakespeare: For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: One should never know too precisely whom one has married...
Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not l...
Quote by Elbert Hubbard: The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me...
Quote by Voltaire: Everything's fine today, that is our illusion....
Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld: To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the A...
Quote by Blaise Pascal: That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so derange...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: There is an optical illusion about every person we meet....
Quote by Victor Hugo: Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date....
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not ...
Quote by Kahlil Gibran: Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate....
Quote by Alan Watts: A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with ...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction t...
Quote by William Butler Yeats: There is no deformity But saves us from a dream....
Quote by Helen Keller: Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodie...
Quote by Swami Vivekananda: Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a...
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most......
Quote by William Shakespeare: Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?...
Quote by Mike Tyson: There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna...
Quote by Euripides: Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain....
Quote by Swami Vivekananda: Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None e...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminatin...
Quote by Bob Marley: So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion....
Quote by Rabindranath Tagore: Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Illusion is the first of all pleasures....
Quote by H. L. Mencken: The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises,...
Quote by Victor Hugo: What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to ...
Quote by Victor Hugo: By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour....