Quotes About Illusions

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

Many of us have had our illusions about security and permanency shattered. The longer we're alive, the more it gets beat into us: nothing is forever.

While perfect passion provides us with its own particular pleasure and danger, for those of us seeking perfect love it can only ever be a preliminary stage in the process. We can only move from perfect passion to perfect love when the illusions pass and we are able to use the energy and intensity generated by intense, overwhelming, erotic bonding to heighten self-discovery.

I saw that locked up in his nineteenth-century metaphysical illusions he was unapproachable.

What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

Her dreams had been just that—dreams. Wishful illusions, all of her own making. If he wasn't what she'd expected, that was her fault. She'd been expecting something that didn't even exist. And she should have known better.

Pero una cosa es lo que uno quiere y otra cosa lo que uno puede , la vida es así. O por lo menos así es la mia y así este libro, proyecto disparatado. El presente se entremete en el pasado y el pasado no deja vivir. Y el futuro enterito se lo regalo. La vida enciende ilusiones y las apaga.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

People will do whatever they can to keep their illusions intact," he said. "Then they justify it with a philosophy.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

His illusions about American decency had not survived the reading of American history.

Beauty and dignity were illusions fostered by the company of children, sustained for the benefit of children.

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

El hombre tiene ilusiones como el pájaro alas. Eso es lo que lo sostiene

Ce que j'ai perdu en illusions, je l'ai gagné en tendresse.

To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.

They say the truth hurts, but the only thing the truth hurts, are illusions.