Lost Illusions Quotes

The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

I'd always dreamed of being an actor and going out to Los Angeles or New York and being paid to do what you love, and then I went and did that, and it wasn't what I expected.