#illusion

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#freedom #illusion #longer #merely #posses

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas. ↗

— Gary Numan

#areas #associated #aware #i #illusions

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#going #illusion #like #real #reality

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#children #create #going #had #him

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#always #benefit #having #i #illusion

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#illusion #like #limits #often

Friendship has its illusions no less than love. ↗

— Stendhal

#illusions #less #love #than

That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#fish #illusions #magic #beauty

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. ↗

— Richard Bach

#change

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#death