“Our life here was just a momentary illusion, and someday reality would yank us back to the world we came from.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it. — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“One should get as much pleasure from spending money as one gets from earning it. But at that time, one says, ‘I… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.” — Denise Domning Copy Share Image
If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
“I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“To know a thing does not always enable us to prevent it, but at least the things we know we do hold,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be --… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“With the illusion stripped away, I could see that we were part of an ocean of light. We are light flowing, moving,… — Jonathan Talat Phillips Copy Share Image
The trust of the mass population can no longer be taken for granted, and any continuation of the 'grand illusion' is dangerous… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
“It is because we feel that we are separate from nature that we also feel it is okay to manipulate it, pollute… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
People with autism never, ever feel at ease, wherever we are. Because of this, we wander off - or run away -… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“...knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character. — O. J. Simpson Copy Share Image
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Does anybody know which are the thoughts of God, even if they are plants, mountains, sky, stars or whatever else?” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.' — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.” — James Blanchard Cisneros Copy Share Image
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