Illusion Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Illusion May This world World
There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense. — Jihae Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
