Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne

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

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Timothy Zahn

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
Albert Claude

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
Grace Jones

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Henri Nouwen

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
Larry McMurtry

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
Marguerite Duras

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
Joyce Maynard

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Francoise Sagan

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
Ella Maillart

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
Joseph Jarman

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Philip Guston

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.
David Brinkley