#illusion

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#best #change #come #disillusioned #ever

He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way! ↗

— Judy Holliday

#before #boy #gave #great #great way

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#business #commonplaces #constant #disillusion #life

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#illusions #soul #supported #them #wings

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#based #cannot #conduct #decision #fate

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#bred #gap #illusion #reality #wish

I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people. ↗

— Richard Chamberlain

#actually #feel #gay #head #i

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#desires #fact #falls #illusion #instinctual

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ↗

— Judy Garland

#born #cast #death #dreams #fed

In the fire of his embrace, all that was her ceased to exist. Only what was God remained. I am. The cloisterbell, the voice of Christ. He spoke again: I am. She tried to obey but was frozen in beauty, like a fly trapped in amber. She could not move. Nothing exists apart from me. Self had been an illusion, a dream. God dreaming. ↗

— Mark Salzman

#self-is-an-illusion #the-voice-of-god #beauty