Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up. — John Green Copy Share Image
“That is the present: an emanation of memory bouncing on the illusion of the future” — Anouar Majid Copy Share Image
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; it’s an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep… — Sarah Newton Copy Share Image
“53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
“I saw clearly that the idea of the self—of distinction, of me, of an inner and outer—is just an illusion,” he said,… — Emily Esfahani Smith Copy Share Image
Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Look at me I am the life in a wasteland Look at me I am the slavery through the ages Look at… — Rixa White Copy Share Image
“illusion of control to describe what happens when we place ourselves in the role of agent in a situation that truly lacks… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“As much longing there is for the worldly pleasure of five senses, that much less is the spiritual development.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and… — Anatoli Granovsky Copy Share Image
Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“with pen i create magic magic is an illusion illusion is your love your love inks my pen.” — S Mittal Copy Share Image
“Moha (illusory attachment) will indeed keep on stinging you until you are completely exhausted!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“To do anything is known as wrong belief (bhranti) and to Know is considered as 'Knowledge of the Self' (Gnan).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“Separation may just be an illusion. When we feel love in any form, it has the effect of beginning to shatter that… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion. — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
