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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. - Of Human Bondage
View quotes by W Somerset Maugham

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. [And what about belief in the illusion of the absence of illusions?]
View quotes by Barbara Harrison

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
View quotes by Tom Stoppard

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
View quotes by Albert Einstein

Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so
View quotes by Douglas Adams

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be agressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.
View quotes by Michael Jordan

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
View quotes by Iris Murdoch

The great illusion (Title of book 1910 re futility of war)
View quotes by Sir Norman Angell

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
View quotes by Georges Bernanos

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
View quotes by Pope John Paul II

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
View quotes by Judy Garland

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
View quotes by Judy Garland

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
View quotes by Andre Maurois

We trained hard - but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up
into teams we were reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend
to meet any new situation by reorganising, and what a wonderful method it
can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing
confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
View quotes by Petronius Arbiter

I'm all for the illusion that I'm a sex symbol.
View quotes by James Nesbitt

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
View quotes by Alexander Chase

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
View quotes by Stanley Kubrick

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
View quotes by Sigmund Freud

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
View quotes by Saul Bellow



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