#illusion

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

— Mark Twain

#exist #gone #illusions #live #may

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#birth #daughter #done #existing #gave

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it. ↗

— David Blaine

#could #doing #i #illusions #magic

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #carry #challenge #disillusion #each

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#disillusionment #emotional #faith

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes. ↗

— Francis Maude

#compete #disillusioned #effectively #enough #gain

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances. ↗

— R.K. Narayan

#illusion #love #art

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. ↗

— Clive Barker

#horror #illusion #oblivion #reality #truth

Knives are sharp, but are equally confusing. ↗

— Nathan Hassall

#funny #nascent-illusion #sad #scary #strange

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#faith #illusions #infancy #life #sleep