Top 17 Beautiful Illusions Quotes
#1. All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
Herman Melville
#2. Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oot ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare root ay swee fuck all!
Irvine Welsh
#3. I restrained myself from making negative comments, he'd be discouraged, after all I was his best friend. If I wasn't on his side in this walk of life who would be?
Jill Thrussell
#4. As adults we get so entrapped in illusions and trivia, that we forget the true essence of life; and so often we need to connect with children, to understand that it is the little, priceless joys that make life beautiful and worthy.
Manprit Kaur
#5. There is no growth in comfort, only complacency. True growth requires life's challenges to reveal and exercise our full potential.
Dionna L. Hayden
#6. I had no illusions at all that I was beautiful, pretty or even able to attract the right sort of attention from men
Dorothy Koomson
#7. When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends.
Floyd Patterson
#8. The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending.
James S.A. Corey
#9. I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
Ralph Lauren
#10. Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
Haruki Murakami
#11. Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.
Matthew Fox
#12. Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.
Harmony Korine
#13. A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and repulsive pretensions, shedding artificial attachments, living without grand illusions, and free of deceptive delusions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#14. The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.
Chuck Palahniuk
#15. Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.
Erin Heatherton
#16. How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow