Disillusionment Quotes

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifti...

Stupid girl. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the so...

You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki...

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go...

All knowledge hurts.

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of...

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as i...

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they st...

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin

There's truths you have to grow into.

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere...

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successivel...

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate t...

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewi...

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and...

If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me...

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I'm too old to know everything

I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to comman...

The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienatio...

When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it an...