Quotes of: Illusions Keyword

Darkness cannot survive in light, but a light can shine in the dark!

Beyond the Magic Pill: A Collection of the Insights of Illusions

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Gabriel Byrne

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Francoise Sagan

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Publilius Syrus

It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

The Alchemy of Desire

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

The House of Mirth

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.

Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

To Jerusalem and Back

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

Jacob's Room

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

Sorcerer's Apprentice

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.

Sacrifice

I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.

Shattered Illusions

Refusing to believe that change can occur at any moment is one of the worst of human failings.

Shattered Illusions

Instead of channeling passion through my fingertips, I summoned the courage to channel it through my eyes.

Shattered Illusions

Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.

Shattered Illusions

The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never goes away.

Shattered Illusions

Answer me this: Is love rational? Is it sane? Can it be tamed and sculpted, like a piece of clay? Of course it can't.

Shattered Illusions

Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.

Master of Stupidity