Pastoral Resources

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.