(288 quotes found)
“Stop, shadow of my elusive beloved/ Image of enchantment that I most desire/ Beautiful illusion for whom I happily die/ Sweet fiction for whom I painfully live.”
Juana Ines de la Cruz
“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart”
George Jean Nathan
“So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.”
Gillian Anderson
“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place”
Gary Zukav
“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.”
Kalu Rinpoche
“When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.”
“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.”
Robert Burton
“It is respectable to have no illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull”
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.”
F. Sagan
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