Frosty path and thoughts of illusion

"The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion. The tunnel is."


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

~Mark Twain


"Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do"

~Elizabeth Bowen


"Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality."

~Chamfort


"An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground"

~Christopher Martin-Wieland


"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."

~Thomas More


"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."

~Luigi Pirandello


"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."

~Orson Welles


"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."

~Sigmund Freud


"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."

~Arnold Newman