#illusions

Words are illusions. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#words

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#feeling #illusions #live #person

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. ↗

— Giotto di Bondone

#echoes #illusions #rome #yearning

I'm an idealist without illusions. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#idealist #illusions #without

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas. ↗

— Gary Numan

#areas #associated #aware #i #illusions

Friendship has its illusions no less than love. ↗

— Stendhal

#illusions #less #love #than

The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice. ↗

— Catherine Fisher

#keiro #magic #sapphique #the-dark-enchanter #art

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#illusions #courage

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#distractions #illusions #life #war #death

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