Top 100 Quotes About Illusion Of Love
#1. Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.
Frederick Lenz
#2. Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
Courtney Milan
#3. Romance is an illusion of love and excitement that touches our hearts and mind. It lingers in our memories like a fairy tale.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
Anais Nin
#5. Crush is only an illusion of love, u creates in your mind..
BHARAT SHARMA
#6. Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.
Paul Russell
#7. What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.
Virginia Woolf
#8. The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change.
Debasish Mridha
#9. We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
Jean Baudrillard
#10. What of Art?' she asked
'It is a malody.'
'Love?'
'Illusion'
'Religion?'
'A fashionable substitute for belief.'
'What are you?'
'To define is to limit
Oscar Wilde
#11. The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
Mike Norton
#12. But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.
Deb Caletti
#13. Maybe we both fell in love with the illusion of something more
Tahereh Mafi
#14. There is only Love
and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.
Vera Nazarian
#15. Market forces which are driven by self indulgent needs designing the ultimate human experiences such as intimacy, love, solidarity and commitment as not enough and no longer needed, resulting in an ongoing emptiness and on the illusion of endless enjoyment.
Bruno De Oliveira
#16. It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?
Nora Ephron
#17. But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#18. Separation may just be an illusion. When we feel love in any form, it has the effect of beginning to shatter that illusion.
Deepak Chopra
#19. Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
Ellen Hopkins
#20. My illusion, the idea of a soul mate, was so entrenched in my fantasy that the thought of letting him go, wrecked me.
M.R. Field
#21. Love
not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.
Vera Nazarian
#22. My love, stay here.
Going in search of Self (as a goal) is illusion;
You are already the One Self.
You will purchase the map,
Only to find you are already Here.
Mooji
#23. 53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there-not just yet. I believed in you.
Maggie Nelson
#24. Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.
Sharon Salzberg
#25. I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.
Cecily Brown
#26. She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#27. What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?
Marie Lu
#28. When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.
Gary Zukav
#29. What we see on the TV screen, or the film screen or what we listen to in music, we have an illusion of what Prince Charming looks like or Cinderella's gonna look like in our life and we forget about what true love really means.
Shari Wiedmann
#30. Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.
Jose Saramago
#31. A man of wisdom knows that life is an illusion, so he lives a life of love and happiness as his mission.
Debasish Mridha
#32. The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel better. That's all I ever will be, unable to be that woman in real life.
Nicole Kiefer
#33. Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will)
he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.
Edward Lewis Wallant
#34. Love is the illusion you get in the mids of infatuation and happiness.
Tia Clark
#35. Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore
#36. Love is illusory, Ancient One. I thought you would've learned that lesson by now." "Perhaps for some, Madame, but I have touched the deepest part of him, and there is no illusion there.
Marguerite Labbe
#37. He was saner than anyone --had fallen out of the world of illusion: love, interesting work, hope for the future.
John Gardner
#38. I nothing had, and yet enough for youth
Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,
O, give me back my youth again!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#39. That illusion of young romantic love to which women look forever forward and forever back.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#40. Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death
Sorin Cerin
#41. Love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act.
Christer Kihlman
#42. The sooner we give up the illusion that a church must be perfect in order to love it, the sooner we quit pretending and start admitting we're all imperfect and need grace. This is the beginning of real community.
Rick Warren
#43. In Valiente's world," Eden wrote,"Love is never consummated, but remains a figment of the hero's own imagination. In preferring dreams to reality, the hero dooms himself. He would rather risk a physical death than the death of his beloved illusion.
Ava Zavora
#44. No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order to live but to make other believe they have lived!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#45. But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.
Thomas Merton
#46. How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet
on the other hand
what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt ...
David Guterson
#47. When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession.
Debasish Mridha
#48. The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.
David Steindl-Rast
#49. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.
Khaled Hosseini
#50. Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.
Jaggi Vasudev
#51. The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.
Milan Kundera
#52. Finding Grant however and living happily ever after was an illusion, a dream. Things like that didn't happen to women like them. Things like that didn't happen in real life. Real life was shacking up with a man you didn't love just to have the security of a roof over your head.
Elle Ison
Shawn Reilly
#53. A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#54. We have a fictional "I" that we try to love and protect. We spend most of our life playing this futile game. "What will happen? How will it go? Will I get something out of it?" I, I, I - it's a mind game of illusion, and we are lost in it.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#55. Is love the ultimate illusion? Or is it what it seems to be
the greatest transformation of all? (Glyrenden)
Sharon Shinn
#56. Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.
Arthur Miller
#57. Magic is always an illusion and love a magic of illusion.
Amit Abraham
#58. Everything is illusion, except for the Divine Love of God that is all-pervading which you can feel through your Spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
#59. For love, there has to be a distance across which lovers can approach one another. The approach is of course just an illusion, because love in fact separates people. Love is a polarity.
Antal Szerb
#60. What of Art?
-It is a malady.
Love?
-An Illusion.
Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
What are you?
-To define is to limit.
Oscar Wilde
#62. For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.
Washington Irving
#64. Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity.
Steven Storm
#65. They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.
Andrew Holleran
#66. Ah, love. That's what the world has lost. There's no more love, only the illusion of it.
Lauren DeStefano
#67. And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. I love you, too.
Lauren DeStefano
#68. The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit
Marianne Williamson
#69. Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.
Laozi
#70. Then he just blurted it out, with no preparation. 'The truth of it is that whether your mother arranged our marriage, or whether it was all an illusion, I must be horribly obtuse, because I can't talk myself out of being in love with you.
Eloisa James
#71. because only love is real. It is our function to see through the illusion of guilt, to the innocence that lies beyond. "To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All
Marianne Williamson
#72. What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#73. Maybe that's what love is, in the end: a shared illusion of safety.
Amanda Eyre Ward
#74. Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.
Molly Friedenfeld
#75. On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.
Esther Perel
#76. The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.
Molly Friedenfeld
#77. Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.
Robert Downey Jr.
#78. God is like an umbrella of illusion and belief,
In rainy days we use him, in sunny days we forget him.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#81. There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.
Cassandra Clare
#82. Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again - words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!
Erich Maria Remarque
#83. Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.
David Blaine
#84. In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no conflict, nothing that is not you, and nothing that is not love can survive in it. This represents the the fulfillment of the divine transpersonal purpose of your relationship.
Eckhart Tolle
#85. You poor, deluded woman ... do you believe there is any such thing as love? ... You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?
Nawal El Saadawi
#86. You and I are separate is an illusion. You and I are connected with energy that fills the space.
You and I are made up of this energy. This energy is love.
You and I are one. This oneness is love.
Rashmit Kalra
#87. I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
George Sand
#88. When we surrender completely to our Higher Self and we remember that we are Divine Beings, that we are Human Angels, the illusion of having limits vanishes and everything, including miracles, becomes possible in the name of Love.
Human Angels
#89. I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered ... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.
Eve Arnold
#90. I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.
Ashley Beale
#91. Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.
Calvin Miller
#93. We will be asked, "what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?"
Yasmin Mogahed
#94. But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.
Milan Kundera
#95. Love is making friends with fear because fear is the constant companion of intimacy ~ and when you bring fear out of the darkness and into the light, you realize it was an illusion based on our own insecurities.
Allen L. Roland
#96. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.
David W. Earle
#97. The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#98. Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
E'yen A. Gardner
#99. Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
George Bernard Shaw
#100. He also saw that matter is a mirror - everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light - and the world of illusion, the Dream, is just like smoke which doesn't allow us to see what we really are. "The real us is pure love, pure light," he said.
Miguel Ruiz
