“How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should supersede them.” — Stephanie Danler Copy Share Image
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt. — Breckin Meyer Copy Share Image
Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It might seem that this knowledge is cold, devoid of emotion, empty. This is another illusion. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes. — Meera Copy Share Image
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic… — Victor Salva Copy Share Image
I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Fear is just an illusion, it doesn't exist you created it. It's all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“What you learned about the Müller-Lyer illusion did not change the way you see the lines, but it changed your behavior. You… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
The outer drama in the world is going to escalate, and what they [the Pleiadians] are saying is to come back to… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart.… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“- I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn't seem real to me. - How does it seem? - It seems… — Stevie Mikayne Copy Share Image
“As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. — John Cudahy Copy Share Image
Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man,… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free. — Laura Anne Gilman Copy Share Image
Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break. — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend. — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
“Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion.” — Sunny John Copy Share Image
I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion. — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.” — Lauren Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions. — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image