The dreamers untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.
Bryant McGill
We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.
Wystan Hugh Auden
All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.
Bryant McGill
In wartime Shanghai I saw so many horrors... Civilised life is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is, we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
James Graham Ballard
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Sultan Aladdin had few illusions about his own people: amiable, well-favoured, courteous, they loved rest better than industry their function was to remind the toiling Chinese, Indians and British of the ultimate vanity of labour.
Anthony Burgess