Quotes about Illusion

Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

To make them feel good about themselves when they were made to feel good about seeing God is like taking someone to the Alps and locking them in a room full of mirrors.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you…. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened." Mark Twain