The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present,...

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you...

…I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness – now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? …

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a word in Japanese, perhaps the Japanese for ‘nostalgic.’ ‘Nos-tal-gic. It is good to be nos-tal-gic. Very...

Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos…To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality

Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more “good”...

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

perfect.” I wasn’t sure what bothered me more; the fact that I had no control over the changes of my body and hair or that this horrible situation was only happening to me.

The secret of good magic is another magic.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.

Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion.

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive...

Some people center the universe around themselves; while making other people nothing but decorations to their existence. “I will do this and then I will do that and then people will think this about me...

Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over our own life that allows us to feel like adults, for we associate maturity...

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.

That’s the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can...

The conquered roam free in the box of insanity.

We are all united by both pain and love. Both a smile and a wound. We are all united by these very basic yet very influential things, because we all recognize them, we all know...

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

My power is everywhere propping up illusions, but I’m taking it back by letting go of them & just riding the stallion into wonderland. Let’s see what you’ve got to say about the darkness in...

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don’t see where they get the pigeons from, you don’t really know how they’re doing it.

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how...

Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.

There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all “There does exist a real magic”.

There is absolutely a big difference between getting a date and getting a husband. Being overly materialistic can get a lady some dates, but an impeccable character will surely get her a husband of a...

Fear is an illusionary place we travel to in our minds when we allow ourselves to move away from the heart.

All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality.

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their...

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

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

I have no illusions about having another ‘Seinfeld’ in my life.

In the terms of ‘Mental Illness’ Isn’t stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.