#illusions

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

Personally, I like Hollywood and I like pictures. But that doesn't mean I have any illusions about either. ↗

— Marjorie Reynolds

#any #either #hollywood #i #illusions

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

He'd been back for about two weeks, and everything in Laurel's life had been thrown into Chaos. Sexy, sexy chaos. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#laurel #tamani #life

Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos...To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality ↗

— Sherif A. El-Mawardy

#illusions #life #reality #life

All is il­lu­sion; noth­ing is re­al. There are no true win­dows or halls. The doors are not there and they can't hold the light. My life's not con­tained in these walls. ↗

— L.S. Hartfield

#life

Non mi manca quello che mostravi di essere, mi manca quello che pensavo tu fossi. ↗

— Alda Merini

#illusions #love #love

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#lasting-love #love-illusions #life

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#delusions #fantasy #illusions #religion #religion

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt. ↗

— Breckin Meyer

#awhile #brad #brad pitt #got #i