Begets Quote by Emile M. Cioran

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.

— Emile M. Cioran

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

— Edward Abbey

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that…

— Frederick Lenz

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint…

— Sigmund Freud

I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were…

— Laurie Anderson

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

— Sheila Ballantyne

One illusion is as good as another.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

— Meher Baba

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's…

— George Eliot

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to…

— Paul Brunton