Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.