We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch
Even as recently as 1969, I still had the illusion, you see, that atomic energy could be a safe alternative to damming all our rivers for power.
David Brower
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Lewis H Lapham
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
Karl Kraus
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Georges Bernanos
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andre Maurois
Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness
Henrik Ibsen
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages
Horace Greeley
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
Christian Nevell Bovee
How strange when an illusion dies, it's as though you've lost a child.
Judy Garland
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality
Christian Nevell Bovee
Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good working order
Holly Brubach