Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is partly illusion in that we remember things differently as we get older, etc. But that doesn't mean, when historians look… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own:… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
“Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . — Italo Svevo 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
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Moha (illusory attachment) will indeed keep on stinging you until you are completely exhausted!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. .… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
