“It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.” — Venugopal Gupta Copy Share Image
Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“They’ll maintain the shallow illusion of success & happiness, no matter what happens.” — Peace Copy Share Image
“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Existence an illusion from which we peel shard after shard of reality. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
“Beauty is an illusionary concept because the valley beyond always appears more beautiful.” — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
When doing a fantasy show - or a show with fantasy elements - the more you can anchor an effect to reality,… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys… — Laozi Copy Share Image
None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“All things have the appearance of solidity, but it's an illusion, a trick of perception drawn from our eternal entrapment in the… — Todd Lockwood Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
