Illusion Quotes

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

When real life is wanting one must create an illusion. It is better than nothing.[Когда нет настоящей жизни, то живут миражами. Все-таки лучше, чем ничего.]

The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one’s own particular race is fairly widespread.

You mustn’t believe everything you see. The image of reality we perceive with our eyes is only an illusion, an optical effect. Light is a great liar.

When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions.

The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.[Jeder von uns kommt dahin, die Erwartungen, die er in der Jugend an seine Mitmenschen geknüpft, als Illusionen fallenzulassen, und kann erfahren, wie sehr ihm das Leben durch deren Übelwollen erschwert und schmerzhaft gemacht wird.]

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.[Nein, unsere Wissenschaft ist keine Illusion. Eine Illusion aber wäre es zu glauben, daß wir anderswoher bekommen könnten, was sie uns nicht geben kann.]

Life is only one of the Great Illusions.

I am growing up. I am losing some illusions, perhaps to acquire others.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.

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

A middle-class girl may have the illusion that a prince will come and marry her. This is possible; and a few such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less likely. [Ein Bürgermädchen kann sich z. B. die Illusion machen, daß ein Prinz kommen wird, um sie heimzuholen. Es ist rnöglich, einige Fälle dieser Art haben sich ereignet. Daß der Messias kommen und ein goldenes Zeitalter begründen wird, ist weit weniger wahrscheinlich.]