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Illusions Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
- [The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty,…
- Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
- It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
- Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,…
- For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.
- It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull
More Illusions Quotes
- He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. — Giotto di Bondone
- We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen
- I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. — Taylor Caldwell
- I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. — Paul Cezanne
- Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. — Jack Kornfield
- You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the… — Barry Lopez
- Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am… — Sarah McLachlan
- The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't… — Joni Mitchell
- All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson