Illusions Quotes

502 Illusions quotes by 369 unique authors

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. — Isabel Allende
If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made… — Deborah Feldman
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people]… — Thomas Merton
Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens. — Javier MarÃas
Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. — Melody Beattie
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my… — David Copperfield
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. — Ruth Bernhard
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous,… — Thomas Carlyle
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions. — Hector Hugh Munro
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit… — Lord Acton
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but… — Dogen
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left… — Sarah McLachlan
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming. — Aprilynne Pike
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… — Frederick Lenz
The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore… — Esther Hicks

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