Middle Column?

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty. - Pat Schweibert

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. - Groucho Marx

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Love ceases to be a puzzle the moment you find the missing piece. - Olaotan Fawehinmi

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower. - Mitch Hedberg

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. - Cavett Robert

Has anyone noticed that in heaven all the interesting men are missing? - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. - George Best

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments. - Earl Wilson

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. - Elie Wiesel

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone... when I came back the entire area was missing. - Steven Wright

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. - Steven Wright

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. - Dame Edna Everage

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. - Flip Wilson

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. - Kay Knudsen

The problem is that we always look for the missing piece of the puzzle instead of finding a place for the one in our hand. - Alina Radoi

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop. - Mother Teresa

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins