Quotes of: Illusions Keyword

If you're brave enough to follow truth it will shatter you and your illusions at the same time.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

No Longer Human

That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker

I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget.

The Lifeboat

Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.

The Library at Night

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

The Sweet Far Thing

I’m not sure. But – unless I’m struggling with the darkness within – I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is.

The Syrian Virgin

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.

Pawn

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Myth, mist, and mystery all add to the illusion of love. If you need me I’ll be by the fog machine wearing a tunic and writing an epic poem in Greek.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My love has six sides, but it’s not a coffin. That’s just an optical illusion. Still, one day my love for you will be the death of me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one

And That’s Why I’m Single

Only love can be shared, and the attempt to 'share' an illusion is literally impossible.

Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

...knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.

Written in My Own Heart's Blood

\ Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

Richard Russo

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

In Conquest Born

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

Oren Peli