Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or…

— Jessica Zafra

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

— Jack Kornfield

I knew what kind of genre 'Casa de mi Padre' was going for. But my character, specifically, I think is very real.

— Genesis Rodriguez

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

— Helen Rowland

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?

— Frederick Lenz

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,…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

— Jean Rhys

“The more you think about illusions, the more they'll swell up and take on form. And no longer be an illusion.”

— Haruki Murakami

“A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.”

— Amit Kalantri

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

— Anais Nin

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under…

— Charlotte Brontë

Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I…

— Brett Dennen

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu