Illusory Quotes

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Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events… — Stephen LaBerge
Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships. — Clifford Stoll
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter. — Bill Keller
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable… — Eckhart Tolle
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age… — Claude Monet
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. — Rene Descartes
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. — Terry Eagleton
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. — Clive Barker
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though… — Bret Easton Ellis
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage.… — Anton Chekhov
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world,… — Anais Nin
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness! — Ram Dass
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.… — W. Somerset Maugham
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery… — Franz Wright
Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your… — Michael J. Fox
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really… — Soren Kierkegaard
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very… — Albert Camus

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