Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.