Mirage Quotes

“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.
A fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

“Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

“Adversity is a mirage. People, situations, and relationships sometimes change for the worst but inevitably clear a path for far better replacements. The continued journey will always find bliss.”
― Carl Henegan

“As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water, until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing, but he finds Allah with him, Who will pay him his due (Hell). And Allah is Swift in taking account.”
― Anonymous

“The desert is too quiet place for our thoughts.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Miraž

“At long last we have arrived... In the land of the lost, where we all belong.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Miraž

“A mirage is an illusion of what we need projected onto the landscape of our lives. And if our lives are filled with mirages, they are in fact filled with nothing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you look back do you see yourself or a Mirage of your Self?”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“In the castle of utmost happiness, there always remains a window open for sadness to pop inside.”
― Sappho Khizar

“The current generation of huts might help creative folk focus on making new work but the bothy's original function was more egalitarian.
It wanted to offer shelter in remote Scottish locations for walkers and climbers, the idea being that if hikers made the sacrifice to explore extreme locations they should be rewarded by basic accommodation that was free of charge.
The concept was rolled out across the country and aroused a new kind of generosity among landowners.
More than a hundred of these shelters are provided by estate owners on the proviso they are left clean and undamaged.
"Bothying" came about as agricultural methods changed and farmsteads were increasingly abandoned.
During the 1940s the idea of leisure was shifting as it began to mean roaming in the hills and countryside.
Walkers looked for shelter on their meanderings and these small buildings did the trick.
All share the same unique highlight: they are sited within some of the most breath-taking scenery that rural Scotland has to offer.
To come across a bothy is the closest experience Scotland has to a palm tree dotted island mirage after hours stranded out at sea.
With one slight difference: this vision is real.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“They say that soulmates are like dreams: you own them without truly having them. I used to doubt this notion until you departed from my life's story. It then became clear that I had been pursuing something as elusive as a mirage, a kite whose string was held by someone else”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“The desert is a purgatory for man, and a watering place for Death.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Miraž

“Satan's gift is a mirage. He gives the counterfeit and takes the original.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“When stranded in a desert, and you’re dying of thirst, a mirage is the cruelest trick the mind can play. And when you are a stranger among regular folks, and you’re in search of love, a disillusioned or misguided heart is the cruelest thing.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“The ‘good’ future is a mirage. Once you get there, there is always another future to chase. You never get to rest. There is never enough, only more.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

“In the castle of utmost happiness, there always remains a window open for sadness to pop inside.
-Mirage”
― Mirage

“don’t we all live in a mirage, that of our imagination, forever reaching for something that we can never attain – something that keeps temptingly eluding us and therefore spurs us on?”
― Francoise M Hivernel, Safartu: Travels with my children

“Das von uns geglaubte Heiligtum erweist sich als Mirage, das verblasst, während wir an der Rolle der Götter in einem zerfallenden Reich festhalten.”
― Ryan Gelpke

“And, who has the power to destroy the cinder?
Even the fire bent and bowed which only she saw!
Frozen, lifeless and numb was her frame
That love was only a mirage, she knew well now…”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“Life is a downpayment on a mirage.”
― Jack Freestone

“His resentment toward me has gone, at least, although I'm not sure what he's replaced it with. His jaw is tight as he looks across at me with those strange eyes. "She was just scaring him, right? She wouldn't actually have cut it off?"

I almost laugh. That he could have married her married her! and be so oblivious. Are all marriages like this? Is it in fact a neces sary attribute in order for a marriage to survive: some kind of willing suspension of critical thought, so that the person you see before you is the person you WANT to see?”
― Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

“Carcosa, El Dorado!
It isn't a shimmering mirage, a distant dream that beckons with its golden allure, no it is real and it is more beautiful than we could have ever imagined!”
― Ryan Gelpke

“As Carcosa crumbled away, it was like the end of an era. That mysterious glow around it faded, leaving just traces of what used to be. It felt like a story within the story. The name Carcosa, which used to sound like some secret code, now just hangs in the air like a faint memory.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“It was quite a revelation to discover that the history and science textbooks we used in high school were works of fiction.”
― Jack Freestone

“I saw you in my dream, drifting like a snowflake. I reached out to hold you, but you melted away before I could catch you. You were as elusive in my dream as you are in my life—a mirage.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“He could see Cannes shimmering in the distance, like a mirage it haunted him. A mirage, so nearby yet so far out of reach, a mirage of light and elegance, a mirage of fame and excess, a place where modern mythologies came to life, if only temporarily.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Dying in Champoussin

“I lost myself in the pursuit of my soul within her, only to find that she was nothing more than a mirage—a reflection of my own desires, leading me further from the truth I sought.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja