“His whole relationship with Gretchen was one long postcoital illusion” — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The greatest strength is consuming fear as just an illusion and not a reality. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Your dreams become illusion when you are working in the opposite with your shadow. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.” — Jody Gehrman Copy Share Image
We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“We come into this world alone, We depart alone, This also is illusion. I will teach you the way Not to come,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Until we have a firm understanding of the flow of time, or incontrovertible evidence that it is indeed an illusion, then we… — Nina Nenova Copy Share Image
TV shows and movies are a rare form of atemporality, and in an ever-changing, always-on world, spoilers feel irrefutable - sheer access… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
“Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The outer drama in the world is going to escalate, and what they [the Pleiadians] are saying is to come back to… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible… — Marie Kondo Copy Share Image
I think that the development of any culture has something to do with the way people deal with the concept of illusion.… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart.… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obviously drag has different intentions and my drag has always been about gender illusion. — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whatever we are, its because of our own choices. We end up being what we chose to be. — Jatin Tanwer Copy Share Image
“The beautiful boy from my dreams turned out to be nothing more than a trickster. An illusion I was too blind to… — Bianca Scardoni Copy Share Image
“Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.” — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion. — Jenna Marbles Copy Share Image
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.” — Gianni Sarcone Copy Share Image
“And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. "I love you, too.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image