Answers Quote by Sam Keen

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

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

— Mary Doria Russell

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

— Nancy Gibbs

There's no point in clinging to illusions.

— Eva Heller

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

— William Faulkner

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

— Anonymous

Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

— David Icke

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

— Mark Twain

If you are not careful you end up living the illusions that others have created for you.

— Steven Redhead

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

— Javier Marías

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

— Paul Cezanne

“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes…

— Sigmund Freud