All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discussed. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe in it.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is no cure for illusions. There is only the opportunity for discovery.” — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America. — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn’t given a golden watch to inspire the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art… — J.M. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Let the disappointments pass Let the laughter fill your glass Let the illusions last until they shatter Whatever you might hope to… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
“No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time -… — Joseph Mitchell Copy Share Image
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“I wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“There is a great deal of illusion in a work of art; one could go farther and say that it is illusory… — thomas mann Copy Share Image
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Live knowing that you are already dust, long gone, already outside time and looking in, reviewing life, finally understanding every déja vu,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Pride was an illusion, an artifice that could be set aside when circumstances warranted.” — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As beautiful and euphoric as the Balloon Days could be, they were an illusion. It was time he built his life in… — Kristi Strong Copy Share Image
Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion. — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
Face your worry and see it as an illusion. It cannot exist unless you give it power and give it life. — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid. — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
“Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.” — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Love can sometimes be like Magic. But Magic can sometimes...just be illusion.” — Javan Copy Share Image
