#illusion

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#field #gospel #illusion #interest #leaders

Personally, I like Hollywood and I like pictures. But that doesn't mean I have any illusions about either. ↗

— Marjorie Reynolds

#any #either #hollywood #i #illusions

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#ages #been #eunuch #house #i

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#double #error #expression #face #illusion

Sex, once a law as undisputed as gravity, has been disproved. The equation is erased, the blackboard broken ↗

— Isaac Marion

#disillusion #life #sex #life

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#born #despair #disillusionment #novel #poem

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#grief #loss #love #love

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#double-standards #empowerment #expectations #false-belief #feminism

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

— Molly Friedenfeld

#happiness #illusion #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy

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

— Molly Friedenfeld

#honor #illusion #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy