Are you an entrepreneur who is feeling bogged down by the day-to-day operations of your business? If so, you might find relief and inspiration in some of the following illusion quotes. They remind us that success is not always what it seems, and that chasing illusions can be more rewarding than achieving conventional goals. So take a few minutes to read through these quotes, and see if they help you get back on track to pursuing your entrepreneurial dreams.

The best illusion quotes

1. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions — reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.

2. You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple. — Umberto Eco

3. The confusion is always created within the illusion. — Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game

4. I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong–I have audio illusions. — Tom Waits

5. Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth. — Martina Boone, Illusion

6. Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. — Sigmund Freud

7. I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in. — Sushmita Sen

8. In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect…. — Ursula K. Le Guin, City of Illusions

9. We all need illusions. That’s why we love movies. — Monica Bellucci

10. Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions. — Masashi Kishimoto

11. ‘a Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion”.’ — Vivian Amis, The Lotus–Realization of Oneness

12. It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet. — Mark Twain

13. Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. Dreams aren’t only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment. — Mehek Bassi

15. To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do. — Vironika Tugaleva

16. Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion. — Sunny John

17. Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly. — Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

18. You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams. — Tina Fey

19. These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper — only the brave deserve the fair

20. Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. — Milan Kundera

21. The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth–all that is illusion. All that endures is character. — O. J. Simpson

22. If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked. — Mina Loy

23. The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens–tax livestock–labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters. — Stefan Molyneux

24. We’re in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of. — Talib Kweli

25. Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. — Mary Baker Eddy

26. No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. — Sigmund Freud

27. I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. — Stephen Fry

28. It is an illusion that money brings happiness — Sunday Adelaja

29. To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. — Napoleon Bonaparte

30. If everything is an illusion. To experiment is to find out what’s real. — Matthew Donnelly

31. Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery. — Martina Boone, Illusion

32. In the end I didn’t know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief. — Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

33. Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers. — Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions

34. In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It’s called the moon illusion. — Neil Degrasse Tyson

35. ‘a Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion”.’ — Vivian Amis, The Lotus–Realization of Oneness

36. I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. — Michael Jordan

37. Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness. — Thomas Merton

38. The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. — Victor Hugo

39. That’s the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true. — Truman Capote

40. Priceless is economic illusion.Costless is an economical trick. — Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

41. I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. — Stephen Fry

42. You’re never really playing yourself. You’re always acting. It’s an illusion that you’re really playing yourself. The only time I’m playing myself is when I’m at home! — Steve Guttenberg

43. He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin

44. Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws. — Marshall Mcluhan

45. She is an illusion… She can fake everything… you may feel She don’t have emotions but may be She is the most emotional one… — shivangi lavaniya

46. I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. — Michael Jordan

47. Some illusions…are the shadows of great truths. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

48. We’re in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of. — Talib Kweli

49. Stop living in the illusion that some ones anointing will help you rip from where you have not sown — Sunday Adelaja

50. An idyllic childhood is probably illusion. — Martha Grimes, The Lamorna Wink

Conclusion

I hope this collection of quotes about illusion has given you insight into how complex and interesting the concept of illusion can be. We all experience illusions in our lives, and these quotes can help us to better understand them. It is up to us to decide how we use these illusions to our advantage and how we can use them to enhance our lives.