Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.

The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But…

— Thomas Merton

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

— Hal Sparks

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not…

— Kim Chernin

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,…

— David Guterson

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

— Maynard James Keenan

Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.…

— Cindy Gerard

Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,…

— Marcel Proust

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

— Van Morrison

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

— Frederick Lenz

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

— Marshall McLuhan

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

— Esther Meynell