We must select the illusion which appeals to our…

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

— Cyril Connolly

Embrace your passion of been gay there are people will accept it an people that won't but if you stay strong through thick and…

— Ryan Davies

“Destiny pulls us forward while the disappointments of our past try to drag us back; back into the mud of mediocrity and complacency. Our…

— James A. Jimason

On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant…

— Esther Perel

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,…

— David Guterson

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

— Maynard James Keenan

Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.…

— Cindy Gerard

Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,…

— Marcel Proust

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

— Van Morrison

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

— Frederick Lenz

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

— Marshall McLuhan

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

— Esther Meynell