#illusion

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

Time is an illusion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#time #illusion

I'm not asking for forever," Tamani said. "Yet. I'm just asking for a moment. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusion

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#honesty #illusions #perception #personality #self-awareness

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#depair #depression #happiness #illusion #joy

Free zero-point energy doesn't exist in an illusion of freedom. ↗

— Toba Beta

#nothing-for-free #zero-point-energy #freedom

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#civilization #constantly #country #economic #educational

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#four #had #happy #happy days #i

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#commit #crime #illusion #immeasurable #insult

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want. ↗

— David Copperfield

#get #i #illusion #level #magic