Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Stay away from national polls. They are always an illusion. They will always trick you into stupid political behavior. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
What sense does it make to build a castle of illusions? We can live in it for a short time, but when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged… — David Devant Copy Share Image
During the war, women without nylons drew lines up the backs of their legs to give the illusion of silk stockings. Painting… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
I had this illusion that if I kind of dressed badly that I wouldn't stand out. You know, so I actually went… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“Without first knowing yourself, how can you know what is true? Illusion is inevitable without self knowledge. It is childish to be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
The least livable life is the one without coherence-nothing connects, nothing means anything. Stories make connections. They allow us to see our… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“The Charcoal Sky Sometimes you go to the wrong place, but the right way comes and finds you. It might make you… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“To believe the control is in your hands when it is in the hands of some other power, is indeed a wrong… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
