Quotes about Illusion

She was thinking how all those paths and the lawn, thick and knotted with the lives they had lived there, were gone: were rubbed out; were past; were unreal, and now this was real; the boat and the sail with its patch; Macalister with his earrings; the noise of the waves--all this was real.

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact. p.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.