“It seems like we can’t experience reality no matter how hard we try. Because illusion is always waiting at the end of the tunnel.”

“No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.”

Toni Morrison book God Help the Child

“In fact, the whole idea of illusion seems to make sense only if we accept the reality of the illusory experience as an experience and question only what it seems to be telling us about the outside world. Optical illusions do really hapen. What they can’t do is provide accurate measurements of the outside world. The idea of having, so to speak, two successive layers of illusion here is unworkable.”

Mary Midgley (1919–2018) British philosopher and ethicist

“And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop
yourself from dreaming.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

“Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.”

John Steinbeck book Sweet Thursday

“That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

“Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“As a general matter, I believe we should be very slow to make conclusions about the nature of the cosmos based upon inner experience – no matter how profound these experiences seem.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

“In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica