Mirages Quotes

• I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Justice, Done

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part 2: "Politics". Chapter 8: "Economic Freedom and Representative Government", pp. 110-111, 1978.

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• Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.

  Steven Furtick

  Journey, Enjoy Life, Appreciate Life

  Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.14, Multnomah

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• The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Water, Traveler, Walks

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• Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

  Louis L'Amour

  Reality, May, Today

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.146, Bantam

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

  Robert Breault

  Love, Desert, Love Is

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• ..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Live By, Stills

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• Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.

  Daniel Pearce

  Letting Go, Fake People, Real

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• The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.

  Rosita Forbes

  Travel, Journey, Rivers

  Rosita Forbes (1935). “From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia”

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• Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Names, Everyday

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Buddhist, Distance

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

  Erica Jong

  Mirrors, Air, Cities

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• How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage.

  Amy Hill Hearth

  Dream, Fighting, Hard

  Amy Hill Hearth (2012). “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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

  Kenneth Rand

  Faces, Life Is, Creeds

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• Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.

  Dogen

  Dream, Spring, Flower

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• races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Opportunity, Race, Years

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• 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

  Mother, Monday, Morning

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• Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Ignorance, Desert, Expanding

  Will Durant (2011). “The Reformation: The Story of Civilization”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Struggle, Home

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Beautiful, Love Yourself, Relax

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• Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Art, Finding Yourself, Dying

  Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), July 24, 2005.

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• People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

  Michael J. Fox

  Leadership, Drinking, Discovery

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• Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

  Herbert Spencer

  Funny, Relationship, Marriage

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• It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Humility, Self

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.77, Vintage

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• Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

  Stephen King

  Life, Stars, Lying

  Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Fall, Winter

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1376, Delphi Classics

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