How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.
Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could imagine what it would be like to lose a son or daughter. You try to imagine it so that you can write the right kind of letters or form the right words to try to comfort. But you can't even come close. It is unimaginable.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.