“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of… — John Randolph Price Copy Share Image
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
“The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.” — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick 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
A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life — Jose Narosky Copy Share Image
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism. — Henry Thomas Copy Share Image
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion. — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination. — Azim Daudpota Copy Share Image
“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
