Quotes about Illusion
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Beware the lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready assumption that the lovely façade must needs have lovely chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
— Erica Jong
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.
— St. Anthony of Padua
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
— Victor Hugo
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
— Marc Chagall
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
— William Faulkner
If God does not exist, our lives are ultimately meaningless, valueless, and purposeless despite how desperately we cling to the illusion to the contrary.
— William Lane Craig
Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.
— David Livingstone Smith
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
— Erwin McManus