Mirages Quotes

81 Mirages quotes by 74 unique authors

...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love… — Joan Didion
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a… — Francesca Lia Block
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
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.… — Louise Rennison
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and… — Tom Robbins
In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for… — Mark Kurlansky
…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… — Michael Ondaatje
Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality. — Louis L'Amour
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… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the… — Brian Aldiss
I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was… — Neil Gaiman
I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real. — Laura Whitcomb
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so… — Jhumpa Lahiri
People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be… — Masashi Kishimoto
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. — Douglas Hofstadter
In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the… — J R Ward
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… — Charles Spurgeon
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white! — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has… — Mary Balogh
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… — Hal Borland
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things. — Paul Ricoeur
But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I… — Deb Caletti
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. — Charles Dickens
I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than… — Alan Watts

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