Happens Quote by Javier Marías

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

Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

— William Faulkner

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

— Nancy Gibbs

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

— Sheila Ballantyne

Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

— David Icke

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

— Mary Doria Russell

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch…

— Walker Evans

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

— Jihae

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the…

— Georges Braque

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

— Libba Bray