Mirages Quotes

• For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Lost
  • Cry
  • White

• Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • City
  • Mirrors
  • Mirages

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

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Water
  • Traveler
  • Mirages

• It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.

  

  African Spir
  • Boredom
  • Emptiness
  • Occupations

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

  

  Erica Jong
  • City
  • Mirrors
  • Mirages

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

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Dream
  • Happens
  • Steps

• I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Believe
  • Brain
  • Consciousness