As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
A woman should be an illusion.
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!