Sunday, 17 February 2013

Illusions - Quotes

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. - Christian Nestell Bovee

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Voltaire

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. - Sigmund Freud

In youth, we feel the richer for every new illusion; in mature years, for every one we lose. - Madame Swetchine

Modern mans difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness, and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world. - Benjamin Hoff

One of the greatest bores in life is a too knowing fellow, who sees through all delusions, and will never let you enjoy any of them, not even your favorite ones, no matter how agreeable they may be, but must be always waking you out of some delicious dream, only to tell you, "My dear sir, you are dreaming;" as if it were not both proper and natural to dream. He forgets that many things are pleasant only while the delusions which make them so last. - Christian Nestell Bovee

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy. - George Eliot

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions. - William John Locke

The trouble with illusions is that you do not realize you have them till they are shattered. - Unknown

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. - Luigi Pirandello

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