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1. “They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Illusion, Relationships, Human Nature, Idealization
5. “We learn by experience that happiness and pleasure are a fata morgana, which, visible from afar, vanish as we approach; that, on the other hand, suffering and pain are a reality, which makes its presence felt without any intermediary, and for its effect, stands in no need of illusion or the play of false hope.” Arthur Schopenhauer Happiness, Suffering, Reality, Illusion, Human Experience
20. “Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at least in our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.” Marcel Proust Knowledge, Prevention, Control, Illusion, Power, Thought Manipulation
22. “Time is not real, Govinda, I have experienced this often and often again. And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception.” Hermann Hesse Time, Reality, Existence, Perception, Duality, Illusion
24. “Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.” Hermann Hesse Identity, Layers, Enlightenment, Illusion, Human Nature, Eastern Philosophy
26. “It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.” Hermann Hesse Lie, Illusion, Torment, Existential Disillusionment, Societal Critique, Personal Suffering
Illusion Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Illusion, Relationships, Human Nature, Idealization
5. “We learn by experience that happiness and pleasure are a fata morgana, which, visible from afar, vanish as we approach; that, on the other hand, suffering and pain are a reality, which makes its presence felt without any intermediary, and for its effect, stands in no need of illusion or the play of false hope.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Happiness, Suffering, Reality, Illusion, Human Experience
20. “Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at least in our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.”
Marcel Proust Knowledge, Prevention, Control, Illusion, Power, Thought Manipulation
22. “Time is not real, Govinda, I have experienced this often and often again. And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception.”
Hermann Hesse Time, Reality, Existence, Perception, Duality, Illusion
24. “Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.”
Hermann Hesse Identity, Layers, Enlightenment, Illusion, Human Nature, Eastern Philosophy
26. “It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.”
Hermann Hesse Lie, Illusion, Torment, Existential Disillusionment, Societal Critique, Personal Suffering
