Illusion Quotes

“All the world's a stage, and the stage is a world of pasteboard.”

“Jealousy is the dupe of illusion.”

“You can't see the join.”

“The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.”

“What you’re hearing is an illusion. A very carefully contrived illusion.”

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

“This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but heaven.”

“The System is a lie. It is an illusion. We have been living a lie.”

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.”

“Man follows only phantoms.”

“Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.”

“It's about the illusion. It's about taking something that's not real and making it look real.”

“Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.”

“The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice, and truth.”

“The public likes to be fooled, but it likes to be fooled by an artist.”

“Falling in love with love is falling for make-believe.”

“Illusion? That's expensive. It cost me living more than I should have.”

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine.”

“Instead of the 'will to power,' you may say that the true Nietzschean is characterized by the 'will to illusion.'”

“The feeling of being 'me' is a powerful illusion.”