#illusions

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

— Victor Hugo

#illusions #soul #supported #them #wings

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ↗

— Mark Twain

#life #life

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

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#build #bunch #fall #i #idea

Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#average #babies #because #been #discovered

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#lot #man #takes #without #wound

I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#bottle #doing #eat #food #friends

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#composed #experience #illusions #our #rather

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#comprises #gained #illusions #lost #rather

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#death #eyes #hope #illusions #indulge