Quotes About Mirages

#1. Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

Alex Haley

#2. Mirages distract us until we die of thirst.

Marty Rubin

#3. All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

Frederick Lenz

#4. It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Erica Jong

#5. The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

Yasmin Mogahed

#6. The wise camel is not swayed by desert mirages; instead, it trudges on, in search for true water.

Ridley Pearson

#7. In that moment, he chose Greek. He threw in his lot with Camp Half-Blood-and the horses changed. The storm clouds inside burned away, leaving nothing but red dust and shimmering heat, like mirages on the Sahara.

Rick Riordan

#8. As Christina held my hand and Ms. Mina held Mama's, there was a moment - one heartbeat, one breath - where all the differences in schooling and money and skin color evaporated like mirages in a desert. Where everyone was equal, and it was just one woman, helping another. That

Jodi Picoult

#9. Mirages enchant us up to the very moment we die of thirst.

Marty Rubin

#10. Palm trees are all right only in mirages.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it's fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won't happen in one day.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.

Charles Bukowski

#13. They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.

Miki Dora

#14. Making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

Margaret Atwood

#15. Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

Tariq Ramadan

#16. I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

Laura Whitcomb

#17. Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.

Frank Herbert

#18. By degrees, however, they began to hope again. Such are our insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

Victor Hugo

#19. But if you don't take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

Chris Gardner

#20. He worked on small canvases with a touch as light as a cobweb and coloring made of mirages. He lived there, at the bottom of the sea ...

Anais Nin

#21. The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber.

Victor Hugo

#22. Mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly."
"How do you see something that isn't there?" ...
"sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are" ...

Norton Juster

#23. Hen one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Anton Chekhov

#24. Mirages of happiness, I thought. If you walk towards them, they will never grow any closer. Eventually they will vanish into thin air, like the Lady of the Lake.

Alan Bradley

#25. In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#26. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

Daniel Kahneman

#27. For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

Eric Foner

#28. If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost ... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts ... for they have already been given to another.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#29. Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security is merging with The Field, right now.

Penney Peirce

#30. The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

Thomas Sowell

#31. God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

Kenneth Rand

#32. Hollywood is a mirage factory ...

Anais Nin

#33. You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.

Robert Downey Jr.

#34. Wind power is a green mirage of the worst kind.

Hendrik Tennekes

#35. An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#36. Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

Khalil Gibran

#37. Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

Robert Breault