I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

I don’t want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed.

Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses.

Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.

Death is merely an illusion of the departed… Just because you cannot physically see the idea of God, doesn’t mean that he or she isn’t there. Just because you cannot physically see someone that isn’t...

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.

Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This aspect...

Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.

The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else — or else we could...

There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

…but it was just her mind playing cruel tricks, and she tried to push away the irrational thought that Richard was still in there, waiting for someone to save his life.

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums,Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,We win some battles, then we lose some,Truth is no more than illusion at best.What has been said under veil of...

I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

Was it just fear? the voices wonder. We were fearful in the best of times; how could we cope with the worst? So we found the tallest walls and poured ourselves behind them. We kept...

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to...

Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth,Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds,Is the joy of reaching the stream.

Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.

The concept of Time is but the span of our memory.

We must not harbor the illusion of a killer application.

Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer’s financial aspirations, and, working-hours.

Your money myth affects your gain and luck.In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between...

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is a sweet dream. You understand why, of course. Why this peculiar...

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

For spiritual vision of our soul, we need to balance between quantitative illusions & qualitative reality of our life.

He’s got things to do, places to be, realities to believe in. He can feel the phone he’s been told to keep switched off in this communication-free zone vibrating in his pocket and he thanks...

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief...

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion,...

If we look upon the earth as a place where our ‘higher selves’ have come to learn, to experience, or even to be judged, then the splitting of realities that occurs with the many-worlds interpretation...

To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself...

One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was borne onward with the crowd past the great electric-lighted shops, a holy Indifference...

Tomorrow is like ‘there.’ Once you get ‘there,’ it is called ‘here.’ So, technically, life is a set of Todays.

Priceless is economic illusion.Costless is an economical trick.

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of...

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect.

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The...

Samantha reminds me of the difference between what is illusion and what is real. I am reminded whenever I forget that we choose our truth and whether to embrace it or not.

ça ressemble au bonheur, on dirait du bonheur, mais ce n’est pas du bonheur. On devrait être heureux, on ne l’est pas; alors on fait semblant.

If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it’s real?

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.

The illusion is the universe is only physical.

…I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion – can you understand that?…

The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.

You are dealing with national security. Anything labeled a national security issie is taken out from the system. There is no due process, no lawyers. They may do with us what they wish. Fear is...