Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him of his happiness at one stroke.

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.