#illusion

All knowledge hurts. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#disillusionment #experience #knowledge #wisdom #experience

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#illusion #trust #faith

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#illusion #unknown #world #experience

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. ↗

— Norton Juster

#fantasy #fiction #humor #illusions #imaginary

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

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

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. ↗

— Annette Simmons

#illusions #interdependence #ritual #stories #storytelling

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