If you ever do a survey, you’ll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
Illusions Quotes
I’ve looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It’s life’s illusions I recall I really don’t know life at all
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. And that’s what I’m saying: that we’re all built with illusions. And they break.
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.