#illusion

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#romanticism #life

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

— T.S. Eliot

#life #time #life

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#lies #life #resources #work #life

I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#illusion #life #world #life

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fake #false #illusion #impression #mask

Love is a disease of the youth; most of us go through it. A few are cured, the rest are disabled. ↗

— Martin Foreman

#love #love

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#love #love

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present. ↗

— Mike Norton

#illusion #love #nostalgia #sadness #the-past

Men," Chelsea muttered derisively... ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#men

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#nature