Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a…

“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”

— Khaled Hosseini

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin…

— Khaled Hosseini

The fear of making a mistake might be more damaging than the mistake.

— Alexander Den Heijer

“But Mariam hardly noticed, hardly cared...the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that Love was a damaging mistake and…

— Khaled Hosseini

“We cannot withdraw love without damaging ourselves. I have been badly hurt again but I see this morning that it does not really matter…

— May Sarton

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

— James F. Cooper

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you…

— Elizabeth Wein

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

— Elizabeth Wein

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