“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.”
Arthur Koestler (1905–1983) Hungarian-British author and journalist
“This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.”
— Jack Abbott, book In the Belly of the Beast
In the Belly of the Beast (1981)
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“Death only grasps; to live is to pursue, —
Dream on! there 's nothing but illusion true!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
"The Old Player" (1861), in Songs in Many Keys (1862).
Context: Dream on! Though Heaven may woo our open eyes,
Through their closed lids we look on fairer skies;
Truth is for other worlds, and hope for this;
The cheating future lends the present's bliss;
Life is a running shade, with fettered hands,
That chases phantoms over shifting sands;
Death a still spectre on a marble seat,
With ever clutching palms and shackled feet;
The airy shapes that mock life's slender chain,
The flying joys he strives to clasp in vain,
Death only grasps; to live is to pursue, —
Dream on! there 's nothing but illusion true!
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Enlightenment
Song lyrics, Enlightenment (1990)
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Soon there'll be nothing left of me
Nothing left to release”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
"Bring Me the Disco King"
Song lyrics, Reality (2003)
“Life is a space between two illusions: Birth and Death…”
Gianni Sarcone (1962) Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual perception and cognitive psychology
ESOF (2010).
“But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Introduction to Ward's English Poets (1880)
Context: For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.