Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You said you were a fairy princess You said you were a shooting star You said we'd go to Bora Bora Now… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
What’s so bad about addiction? I can’t remember. Isn’t it something about giving up your freedom? Isn’t freedom an illusion? — Jeffrey Steingarten Copy Share Image
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
We in Europe must not indulge the illusion that we could shut ourselves away from the world if it goes to pieces,… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved… — Lance Secretan Copy Share Image
The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
I find the older I get, the more I realize that time is really an illusion. Its like something we created, a… — Kim Wayans Copy Share Image
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I'm a huge John Hughes fan, and I grew up in the '80s, when his films came out. So, my introduction to… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it:… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is… — Justin Raimondo Copy Share Image
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real,… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
“Darkness my beloved home, I return! I return, not whole, but damaged. Fatigued by quixotic tendencies, The prodigal has come back famished.… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Although the Being (Universal Mind) is not material, it does not mean that we cannot, conditionally, call this Mind an immaterial “substance.”… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
“Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect… — Kris Allen Courtney Copy Share Image
“A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“To take a beating and then forget. To take yet another beating and forget is called ‘Moha’ (Illusory attachment)!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
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