When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“How so you choose, between reality and illusion, if both of them are true?” — H.M. Cooper Copy Share Image
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions. — William John Locke Copy Share Image
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“We have arrived here in this illusory place. Now we just have to figure out how to deal with this grand illusion… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I have an amazing spouse; we're a team. He works, and I work, and we sort of do this dance with each… — Sarah Rafferty Copy Share Image
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these… — Edward Lewis Wallant Copy Share Image
“There is a vast difference between sakshibhaav [being a witness; witnessing state] and Gnata-Drashta bhaav [Knower-Seer state]. Some saints may have attained… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Blame is a Defense Against Powerlessness Betrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image