Illusion Quotes - Page 15

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.

predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life