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

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

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

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. - Paulo Coelho

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

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

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments. - Steven Wright

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

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

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

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

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

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

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

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

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife. - Ilie Nastase

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

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. - Richard Schiff

Happiness is the default state. It's what's there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life. - Naval Ravikant

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