Illusion Quotes - Page 19

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.

Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid.

E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not.

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

Barack Obama's class has always been an illusion clouded in faculty lounge, lizard lounge talk, and Michelle Obama's class has actually been told us by the media that it exists, but there isn't any. There isn't anything that's real. Everything on the left is a fraud. Everything on the left is a lie.

The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.

A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.

True Love. I’m starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney.” — Cupcake

It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

Black illusion is all I ever see.