The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me. — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...” — Henry Lindell Copy Share Image
Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion. Sensations are an illusion. Reality, for the most part, is an illusion. The illusion is, perhaps, the most… — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
“Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“As I went over to say good-bye I saw that an expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though… — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Knowing, or thinking we know, can lead to many commotions. What we believe, we know, is maybe a mere illusion. Crucial elements… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion. — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you… — Carol Orsborn Copy Share Image
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective” — Farley Maglaya Copy Share Image
If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“To not be able to see ‘as it is’ and to see it in some another form is called illusion (bhranti).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“...everything we cling to is really an illusion that's manufactured by people who want to control us.” — Laurel Dewey Copy Share Image
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. — James Jones Copy Share Image
The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
