All things have the appearance of solidity, but it's an…

“These are true stories told from memory – to which you are entitled to ask, what is truth, and what is memory to a…

— John le Carré

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I…

— Cheryl Strayed

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

— Denis Diderot

“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it…

— Salman Rushdie

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