Illusion Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

“The entire world is understood as a living interrelated and interactive system. Thus, if a tree outside of the zendo is damaged, I am…

— Harvey Daiho Hilbert-roshi

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can…

— Robert C. Solomon

“Mrs. Postwhistle’s theory was that although very few people in this world understood their own business, they understood it better than anyone else could…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“But then, no one really got her. No one in the world understood. Hell, if she was honest with herself, not even she understood.”

— Lacey Alexander

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

— Mikhail Lermontov

All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall…

— Rumi

“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and…

— Alfred Nobel

“Pride is love for one’s deeds or achievements. Vanity is love for one’s . . . one, I guess.”

— Corey Taylor

Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how…

— Corra May Harris

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

— Victor Hugo