illusions quotes

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

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

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.