#illusions

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#belief #illusion #illusions #itself

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#illusions #soul #supported #them #wings

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#always #destroy #hardly #i #illusions

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#blow #everyone #hate #i #illusions

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead. ↗

— David Copperfield

#dead #dreams #go #illusions #let go

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#heart #illusions #therefore #thy #trust

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#death #eyes #hope #illusions #indulge

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. ↗

— Karl Germain

#humor #illusionists #illusions #magic #magicians

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#double-standards #empowerment #expectations #false-belief #feminism

Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away He's a songwriter, he got something to say He says, "People in this city are too busy to hang out This town's so spread out, no one would hear you if you shout" Everyone's got a script to sell and someplace else they want to be There's always a lock that would open if you could just find the key" (It Ain't Easy Being Green) ↗

— Shannon McNally

#hollywood #hopes #illusions #los-angeles #movie-industry