The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
What’s so bad about addiction? I can’t remember. Isn’t it something about giving up your freedom? Isn’t freedom an illusion? — Jeffrey Steingarten Copy Share Image
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images.… — James Framo Copy Share Image
“But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“When the wrong belief [of ‘I am Chandubhai’] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. After the light is let in to our self-perceptions, we immediately… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — Christopher Nuttall Copy Share Image
“The artist’s artistic brush stroke of colour... Fractionally exists within the art canvas cover... Unaware of its existence in the art’s totality...… — Hugh Shergill Copy Share Image
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is… — Timothy Freke Copy Share Image
Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“To take a beating and then forget. To take yet another beating and forget is called ‘Moha’ (Illusory attachment)!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect… — Kris Allen Courtney Copy Share Image
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The search for meaning is an illusion of logic and a requirement of the middleclass for predictable breeding space.” — Christopher S. Hyatt Copy Share Image
“Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace, I can only show you at night And hide half of… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“You said you were a fairy princess You said you were a shooting star You said we'd go to Bora Bora Now… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image