Quotes about Illusion
It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
— Mark Twain
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
— GK Chesterton
Time is an illusion-to orators.
— Elbert Hubbard
Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?
— JM Coetzee
Because it is not in the nature of love affairs for the lovers to see each other whole and steady.
— JM Coetzee
And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.
— Jack Kerouac
Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.' You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is 'success', the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.
— Jack Kerouac
'Illusion' is a story of God's love and our hunger to find him when we're separated from him. If I can paint a picture of two people still in love after 40 years, that's a pretty good message.
— Frank Peretti
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
— Parker Palmer
... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.
— Paulo Coelho
We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.
— Mark Twain
Christ has redeemed our humanity from vanity and our time from illusion.
— TF Torrance