Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
- Arnold NewmanIllusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Oscar WildeDon`t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark TwainIllusion is the first of the pleasures
- VoltaireI have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
- Alan WattsIt is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.
- Patrick HenryIllusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
- Anna FreudWe must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy
- Cyril ConnollyIt is our illusions that create the world
- Didier CauwelaertRomantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
- Thomas More