I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end,… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
“When one is intoxicated by the worldly life, one is under illusion. When the intoxication wears away; everything will fall into place.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“You are dealing with national security. Anything labeled a national security issie is taken out from the system. There is no due… — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
A big part of filmmaking, and a big part of the power of filmmaking, is creating characters that people fall in love… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
The latest trade of a security creates a dangerous illusion that its market price approximates its true value. This mirage is especially… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“He already knew that life was largely illusion, that though wonderful things could happen, nevertheless as many disappointments came in compensation: and… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has… — Charles Derber Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
'TMZ' took the illusion of privacy away. Now the paranoid star just assumes someone is always there. Decoy cars and false itineraries… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
I hope I can pass on a few thoughts and ideas to the Sci-Fi channel to encourage people to see that they… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Slowly and gently, Augustus Brine explained to the king of the Djinn about the illusion created by motion pictures. When he finished,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of if. But even then it is difficult, once… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“The Illusion - The source of suffering can be linked back to a condition of the mind that creates the illusion of… — L.M.Blanchard Copy Share Image
History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and… — David Means Copy Share Image
But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
People say that Andrea Pirlo is the main player and that everything goes through him, but that's an illusion. Pirlo is a… — Peter Schmeichel Copy Share Image