"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." - Woody Allen

"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy." - Cyril Connolly

"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." - AESOP, Fables

"But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake."
- LORD BYRON, Don Juan

"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Victory

"Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness." - HENRIK IBSEN, The Wild Duck

"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
- EDGAR ALLAN POE, A Dream Within a Dream

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." - MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

"When one draws in, on every side, the sense-organs from the objects of sense as a tortoise draws in its limbs from every side--then his wisdom becomes steadfast." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna

"Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them." - Bible (Matthew ?:?) Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount

"He who knows that this body is like froth, and has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow of illusion, and never see the king of death." - Dhammapada, The (c300 B.C.)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Einstein, Albert

"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there." - Feynman, Richard

"What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion." - Jacob, Max (1876-1944) in 'Art Po]tique' 1922

"That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality." - Lovecraft, H. P. in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key', 'Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness'

"The Man of Truth is beyond good and evil .... The Man of Truth has ridden to All-Is-One. The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Imposter." - Lovecraft, H. P. spoken by 'a voice that was not a voice' in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key',

"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool." - Wagner, Jane