Illusion Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of…

— Alexander Pope

“I used to imagine life divided into separate compartments, consisting, for example, of such dual abstractions as pleasure and pain, love and hate, friendship…

— Anthony Powell

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

— J. G. Holland

These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.

— Louis Pasteur

“The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived…

— Aldous Huxley

“In every one of these "chrysalis" worlds thousands of millions of persons were flashing into existence, one after the other, to drift gropingly about…

— Olaf Stapledon

“The modern world was not alive to the tremendous Reality that encompassed it. We were surrounded by an immeasurable abyss of darkness and splendor.…

— Alfred Noyes

“No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death – every child is aware of them, blazing with…

— Gene Wolfe

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

— Edgar Morin

Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall…

— Petrarch

Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which…

— Herbert Marcuse

“In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the events of…

— Michael Meade