Quotes about Illusion

I felt like I was in a movie and had two cameras for eyes.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Secret worship is all about something in this world that seems so attractive on the outside but will devour you on the inside.

The First Testament is under no illusion about whether implementing the Torah has the potential to achieve God's purpose for Israel's life. There is no direct link between seeking to restrain injustice in society and the implementing of God's reign. Implementing God's reign is fortunately God's business.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?

She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane.

A form of self-delusion.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.