Quotes about Illusion
There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!
— Oscar Wilde
A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.
— Graham Greene
If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
— Graham Greene
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour—the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
— Graham Greene
In a community that gets life based on appearances, problems tend to be diagnosed in terms of how things appear.
— Gregory Boyd
The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone's identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one's world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world.
— Gregory Boyd
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
— JRR Tolkien
What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.
— Robert Brault
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.
— Robert Brault
Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.
— Robert Brault
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
— LM Montgomery
Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
— Aldous Huxley