I planted a plastic plant, but nothing grew but political hope. I watered it with the tears of the voters.

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

Era un’illusione pensare di poter ritrovare la mia vita. La guerra è un viaggio senza ritorno.

You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.

A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

I can fight with a real problem. But I cannot solve the ignorance. I cannot solve the illusion of your mind.

*Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy.

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists.  It is a dangerously false illusion.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

Life is short, do not hesitate!Enjoyed and lived Now because Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is only an illusion!