Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough,… — Anohni Copy Share Image
Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion. — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy.… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“This illusion is reality, and we shall acknowledge it as such. The interdependence of secondary and primary qualities, the dependence of our… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our… — Ashavan Copy Share Image
When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Photography is a relative illusion and film is a literal illusion of speeding multiple images. It's something outside of our perception but… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame… — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices,… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I saw clearly that the idea of the self—of distinction, of me, of an inner and outer—is just an illusion,” he said,… — Emily Esfahani Smith Copy Share Image
So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I find the older I get, the more I realize that time is really an illusion. Its like something we created, a… — Kim Wayans Copy Share Image