If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“To divine is to imagine the world rightly, to see past the illusion that we are separate from the entire fabric of… — Gwendolyn Womack Copy Share Image
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world. — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
“This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true that is how they define reality. But what does… — Kishimoto Masashi Uchiha Itachi - chapter 385 Copy Share Image
“When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless,… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The most fascinating part of movies is the organism of the movie - it's such a bizarre thing to do, to make… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls.… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I think that the development of any culture has something to do with the way people deal with the concept of illusion.… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible… — Marie Kondo 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
Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense. — Warren Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.” — Erol Ozan Copy Share Image
“Some people aren’t really light-teethed; they’re merely dark-skinned.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Happiness is just an illusion of when things are getting a little less fucked up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.” — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane. — Lobsang Rampa Copy Share Image
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're… — Lothaire Bluteau Copy Share Image
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
