Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
James Broughton

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Voltaire

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Emile M. Cioran

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Robert Burton

He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!
Judy Holliday

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

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
David Knopfler

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
Rick Renzi

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.
Hugh Leonard

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.
Joe Rogan

I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.
Victor Salva

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
Perry Christie

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Sydney Smith

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.
Priscilla Presley

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
William Scott

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
Tom T. Hall

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
Johann Most

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
Herman Hesse

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky