Quotes of: Illusions Keyword

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

Night

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

NW

Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

The Poisonwood Bible

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

The Palace of Illusions

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Lafcadio Hearn

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Pierre Bayle

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

Richard Gere

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Levels are just numbers. In this world, strength is just an illusion. There are more important things -Kirito

Reki Kawahara

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

Stefan Molyneux

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

Suzanne Pleshette

You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.

Sylvia Plath

They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in Heaven? Or is he in Hell? That damned, illusive pimpernel.

Sir Peter Blackney "Scarlet Pimpernel"

A mirror creates the illusion of distance which makes the client feel more comfortable as he or she shares deep, personal details with their stylist.

StacyK

If you are feeling low, or trampled, unappreciated, or forgotten...and you are reading this, realize it is an illusion...the hope is real...you are valued...and what lies ahead...is brilliance.

Tom Althouse

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Karl Lagerfeld