illusion

How hard it is to kill hope! Time after time, one thinks one has trodden it down, stamped it to death. Time after time, like a noxious insect, it begins to stir again, it shivers back again into a faint tremulous life. Once more it worms its way into one's heart, to instil its poison, to gnaw away the solid hard foundations of life and leave in their place the hollow phantom of illusion.

And what's care?What's coldness?Why you are so foolish of your freedom?...Merely an illusion... programmed.....

It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.

Break an Illusion, and you open the eyes of the intelligent.

It is an illusion that money brings happiness

Many of us believe that when we give love , we are getting the love back but sometimes it's just an illusion of what we gave them ..

Ah, love. That__ what the world has lost. There__ no more love, only the illusion of it.

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander

- I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn't seem real to me.- How does it seem?- It seems like an illusion that nobody notices.

Stop living in the illusion that some ones anointing will help you rip from where you have not sown

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining men, believe this and commit the most unspeakable crimes.

I smile bitterly at him, then weave an illusion of his face across my own. Raffaele__ expression flickers in surprise for a moment before settling back into its pool of calm. __hey may have a hard time finding me,_ I reply.Raffaele gives me a tight smile in return. __o not underestimate your enemies, Your Majesty,_ he says.

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.

He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married because their sexual appetite had to be satisfied and there must be somebody to manage the house. There was nothing deeper than that in any man and woman relationship.

If everything is an illusion. To experiment is to find out what's real.

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.