There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.
Eisenheim: Everything you have seen here has been an illusion.
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism.
Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.
All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.
Mind is obsessed with fleeting illusions, while Spirit is constant and free.
It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animal...
The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and penetrated by groups of men. Their faces are covered with semen from dozens of masturbating men, their anuses are penetrated repeatedly by lines of partn...
At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot be confuted by reason, why should not I believe in them, since they have so much on their side: tradition, the concurrence of ma...
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they ar...
From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely ...
Dave once asked me what blind people dream about. Mostly in sound and feeling, I replied. At night I fall in love with a voice, and then wake to a feeling of physical loss. Sometimes I close my eyes to a chorus of “Happy Birthday!” The smell of c...
How deaf and stupid I have been, he thought, walking on quickly. When anyone reads anything which he wishes to study, he does not despise the letters and punctuation marks, and call them illusion, chance and worthless shells, but he reads them, he st...
Fish and visitors stink after three days.
