Quotes about Illusions
The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.
- Thomas Merton
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The more we come to the painful confession of our loneliness, hostilities and illusions, the more we are able to see solitude, hospitality and prayer as part of the vision of our life.
- Henri Nouwen
Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.
- George Bernard Shaw
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
- Ayn Rand
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
- Monica Bellucci
Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.
- Thomas Merton
Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.
- Robert Wright
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
- Eugene Peterson
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
- Barbara Brown Taylor