#illusion

Non mi manca quello che mostravi di essere, mi manca quello che pensavo tu fossi. ↗

— Alda Merini

#illusions #love #love

Well, sorry pet, I don't want to be fixed. Whatever your little schoolgirl brain told you about men is absurdly wrong. This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel-in-distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you. ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#fairytales #happy-endings #love #love

When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#illusion #mania #manic #mental-illness #reality

Tradition is the illusion of permanance. ↗

— Woody Allen

#tradition

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#fatal #fixed #growth #illusion #kills

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#bravely #childish #desires #god #harbor

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#dreams #enough #good #greatest #illusion

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#bread #his #hope #illusion #man

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world. ↗

— Tom Holt

#illusion #love #beauty

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#legends #life #life