Quotes about Illusion

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby

She had been wrong about love. She had thought it was meant for fools alone, only to discover it was a fool who walked away from love, no matter the cost or the penalty.

Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith.

That politicians who smiled at us and kissed our babies blue eyes shining with triumph well knew we were falling into our graves kicked by them as they counted our votes.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

If you understand life...you MUST be misinformed!