"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense. — Warren Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Daylight dreamer beware, Thin is the wall of illusion. The magic might be over too soon, Before you even reach the sun.” — Joso Skarica Copy Share Image
“People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“Now they were regaining consciousness– were being treated to a cruel and lovely illusion.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“What the hel—” “Finally! I can talk!” Janco said. Ari turned. Janco held the Sandseed’s scimitar in his hand. The man lay… — Maria V Snyder Copy Share Image
“Today's education is entirely defective to the extent that, calling itself positivist, it begins with abusing the child's trust by presenting as… — André Breton Copy Share Image
Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out… — Howard Ruff Copy Share Image
Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what form she takes - a living spirit, an illusion - but you have to see her, have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The Vitarags (attachment-free enlightened one’s) say, ‘Make whatever intents that are suitable to you. If you get sensual intents towards Me, then… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Conceit is the illusion that our flaws aren't real. - Mwando, Gift Tawanda — Mwando Gift Tawanda Copy Share Image
“I know that life is just a game An illusion that will fade Cheat and lie, have it your way But you… — Samy Yusuf Copy Share Image
Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. — Andre Luiz Moreira Copy Share Image
What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're… — Lothaire Bluteau Copy Share Image
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.” — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
“That which is actually there cannot be seen and that which is not there is seen, that is called Moha (illusory attachment)!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Some people aren’t really light-teethed; they’re merely dark-skinned.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.” — Erol Ozan Copy Share Image
The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
