“Day and night are nothing more than illusions before our eyes.”

“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.”

Arthur Koestler (1905–1983) Hungarian-British author and journalist

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes book Demon in My View

“There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night”

Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer

“By then day had broken everywhere, but here it was still night—no, more than night.”

Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“There is a good deal more to nothing than meets the eye.”

John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist

“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“Our poverty has to be eliminated and the basic necessities of life made available to every single citizen. Political leadership of the country must remember that nothing mocks our values and our dreams more than the desperate struggle of our people for existence; nothing could therefore be more poignant than the look of despair in the eyes of a starving child. Nothing could therefore be a more patriotic objective for our political leaders than to ensure that no child will go to bed hungry, that no family will fear for its next day's bread and that the future and capacities of not a single Indian will be allowed to be stunted by malnutrition.”

Charan Singh (1902–1987) prime minister of India