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title: "116 Mirages Quotes by 104 authors"
description: "Browse 116 Mirages quotes by 104 authors. Discover the best Mirages sayings and thoughts."
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> [Hollywood is a mirage factory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/hollywood-is-a-mirage-factory/)

[Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/)

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> [Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-furtick/enjoy-the-journey-because-the-destination-is-a-mirage/)

[Steven Furtick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-furtick/)

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> [Desperation for a relationship attracts a lot of mirages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/desperation-for-a-relationship-attracts-a-lot-of-mirages/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliyahu-m-goldratt/an-hour-saved-at-the-non-bottleneck-is-a-mirage/)

[Eliyahu M. Goldratt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliyahu-m-goldratt/)

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> [Wind power is a green mirage of the worst kind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-tennekes/wind-power-is-a-green-mirage-of-the-worst-kind/)

[Hendrik Tennekes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-tennekes/)

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> [But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-gardner/but-if-you-don-t-take-the-necessary-steps-to-make-them-happen-dreams/)

[Chris Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-gardner/)

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> [Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/perpetual-encagement-endows-any-mirage-of-salvation-with-credibility/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

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> [I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-whitcomb/i-couldn-t-take-my-eyes-off-him-like-a-desert-wanderer-afraid-of/)

[Laura Whitcomb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-whitcomb/)

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> [God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rand/god-is-a-creed-outworn-ill-wrought-from-a-mirage-fair-and-life-is-an/)

[Kenneth Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rand/)

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> [How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-hill-hearth/how-hard-it-must-be-to-keep-fighting-for-a-dream-when-that-dream-is/)

[Amy Hill Hearth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-hill-hearth/)

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> [For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/for-the-moment-i-can-only-cry-out-that-i-have-lost-my-splendid-mirage/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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> [In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hofstadter/in-the-end-we-self-perceiving-self-inventing-locked-in-mirages-are/)

[Douglas Hofstadter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hofstadter/)

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> [The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yasmin-mogahed/the-traveler-walks-through-many-mirages-before-he-finds-water/)

[Yasmin Mogahed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yasmin-mogahed/)

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> [For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-foner/for-historians-hindsight-can-be-a-treacherous-ally-enabling-us-to/)

[Eric Foner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-foner/)

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> [A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/a-giraffe-is-so-much-a-lady-that-one-refrains-from-thinking-of-her/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

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> [They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miki-dora/they-come-out-of-nowhere-instantaneously-materialize-and-just-as/)

[Miki Dora](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miki-dora/)

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> [I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naguib-mahfouz/i-love-sufism-as-i-love-beautiful-poetry-but-it-is-not-the-answer/)

[Naguib Mahfouz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naguib-mahfouz/)

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> [The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-london/the-man-with-his-brain-can-pierce-the-intoxicating-mirage-of-things/)

[Jack London](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-london/)

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> [I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-am-certain-however-that-nothing-has-done-so-much-to-destroy-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caitl-n-r-kiernan/originality-is-the-most-deadly-mirage-in-all-of-art-you-can-chase-it/)

[Caitlín R. Kiernan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caitl-n-r-kiernan/)

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> [Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/among-the-great-struggles-of-man-good-evil-reason-unreason-etc-there/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

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> [If you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting what is real. Only when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/if-you-can-accept-the-flow-of-life-and-give-in-to-it-you-will-be/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kurlansky/in-every-age-people-are-certain-that-only-the-things-they-have-deemed/)

[Mark Kurlansky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kurlansky/)

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> [Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-rennison/non-i-am-dancing-in-my-nuddy-pants-and-we-both-laughed-like-loons-on/)

[Louise Rennison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-rennison/)

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> [The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-winn/the-upshot-of-pervasive-public-belief-in-the-uncontrollable-sexuality/)

[Marie Winn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-winn/)

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> [If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-you-give-your-soul-up-to-anything-earthly-whether-it-be-the-wealth/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/i-grew-up-in-those-years-when-the-old-west-was-passing-and-the-new/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

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> [Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-vallee/skeptics-who-flatly-deny-the-existence-of-any-unexplained-phenomenon/)

[Jacques Vallee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-vallee/)

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> [The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/the-1990-s-will-be-a-determining-period-of-time-for-another-cycle-if/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

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> [Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/know-all-things-to-be-like-this-a-mirage-a-cloud-castle-a-dream-an/)

[Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/)

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> [You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-thibon/you-feel-you-are-hedged-in-you-dream-of-escape-but-beware-of-mirages/)

[Gustave Thibon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-thibon/)

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> [Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/before-reaching-the-final-line-however-he-had-already-understood-that/)

[Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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> […Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/even-the-idea-of-a-city-never-entered-his-mind-it-was-as-if-he-had/)

[Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/)

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> [Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-tabor/out-of-the-silver-heat-mirage-he-ran-the-sky-burned-and-under-him-the/)

[James Tabor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-tabor/)

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> [It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/it-s-easy-to-slide-into-believing-you-re-the-hypnotist-here-the/)

[Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/)

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> [And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/and-more-than-once-in-the-course-of-time-the-same-theme-reappears/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

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> [Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-atwater-rhodes/cold-as-winter-strong-as-stone-she-faced-the-darkness-all-alone-a/)

[Amelia Atwater-Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-atwater-rhodes/)

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> [Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/love-is-a-gracious-host-to-his-guests-though-to-the-unbidden-his/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-s-kemp/i-enjoyed-the-mirage-by-m-ruff-i-m-reading-edgar-rice-burrough-s/)

[Paul S. Kemp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-s-kemp/)

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> [It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/it-is-the-city-of-mirrors-the-city-of-mirages-at-once-solid-and/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

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                        "text": "Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.",
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                        "text": "If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.",
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                        "text": "I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still heard echoes and already saw shadows, on moonlit nights when the coyotes yapped on the hilltops, and on hot summer afternoons when mirages shimmered, dust devils spun across the flats, and towering cumulus clouds sailed like galleons across the vast blueness of the sky. Echoes of remembrance of what men once did there, and visions of what they would do together.",
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                        "text": "The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it's fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won't happen in one day.",
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                        "text": "Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.",
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                        "text": "You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order to get free: rather dig in the narrow place which has been given you; you will find God there and everything. God does not float on your horizon, he sleeps in your substance. Vanity runs, love digs. If you fly away from yourself, your prison will run with you and will close in because of the wind of your flight; if you go deep down into yourself it will disappear in paradise.",
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                        "text": "Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.",
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                        "text": "…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the inked fibers of a map, that pure zone between land and chart, between distances and legends, between nature and storyteller. The place they had chosen to come to, to be their best selves, to be unconscious of ancestry. Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage, and the book, he was alone, his own invention. He knew during these times how the mirage worked, the fata morgana, for he was within it.",
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                        "text": "Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his skin with each foot strike so that he ran in a hot mist of his own creation. With each slap on the softened asphalt, his soles absorbed heat that rose through his arches and ankles and the stems of his shins. It was a carnival of pain, but he loved each stride because running distilled him to his essence and the heat hastened this distillation.",
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                        "text": "And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif of the soul as a skiff, abandoned on the infinite sea of desires, in the sterile field of cares and ignorance, among the mirages of knowledge, amid the unreason of the world - a craft at the mercy of the sea's great madness, unless it throws out a solid anchor, faith, or raises its spiritual sails so that the breath of God may bring it to port.",
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                        "text": "Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning back. The past is gone, the future, black. Serpents gather in their nest, And she stands above the rest. Shadows hunt; she hunts the shadow. The moon is risen; she stands below. She views her world through the eyes of others. Black and white; there are no colors, As she looks down upon a shattered youth. A shattered mirror shows a shattered truth.",
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