Top 31 Dreams Illusions Quotes
#1. It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.
Mikhail Lermontov
#3. Perhaps he was probing the enigma of why men fall in love with their dreams, which are then so destroyed by harsh realities that their dreamers become cuckolded by their own illusions. Perhaps...
Juan Filloy
#4. All of us insist upon our illusions, upon substituting dreams and distorted memories for the real thing.
Erin Hart
#5. 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
#6. Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are costly only when lost.
Wislawa Szymborska
#7. When you undertake a change like that you have to do it with dreams and hopes, with illusions. To go without them is to merely run away ...
Maria Duenas
#8. Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold
Van Morrison
#9. So travel with me, beyond the small illusions. Dance with me among the clouds, where infinite dreams show not-yet-discovered truths of being. Let the wind whisper passionately against your mouth, inhale deep the endless creativity, dance with the fluttering petals of my spirits concerto.
Cheri Bauer
#10. Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!
H. Rider Haggard
#11. You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams.
Tina Fey
#12. A woman can't be, until a girl dies ... I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.
Christina Stead
#13. I am like a prisoner who happens on enjoy an imaginary freedom in his dreams and who subsequently begins to suspect that he is asleep and, afraid of being awakened, conspires silently with his agreeable illusions.
Rene Descartes
#14. Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
Robert E. Howard
#15. If people saw the world for what it truly is. Saw their lives for what they truly are. Without dreams or illusions. I don't believe they could offer the first reason why they should not elect to die as soon as possible.
Cormac McCarthy
#16. Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#17. Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
Dan Gertler
#18. Dreams are illusions where our experiences experience us
S.E. Sever
#19. It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.
Anton Chekhov
#20. These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
Karl Lagerfeld
#21. Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#22. The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#23. Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
David Copperfield
#24. It's amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down, or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.
Tamara Thiel
#25. No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.
Anatoli Granovsky
#26. What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.
Daniel J. Rice
#27. Ghosts will forever put in appearances, as they should. Our illusions have muscle and meaning. The past returns at midnight, in the heart of our dreams, and the rains and the willows forever remind us of the sacrifices we've offered and those we have yet to make.
Tom Piccirilli
#28. I resolv'd to faign, that all those things which ever entred into my Minde, were no more true, then the illusions of my dreams.
Rene Descartes
#29. Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.
Felix J. Palma
#30. I had no idea who I was. Neither did I know that I was living inside the world of dreams and illusions
Susanna Eun
#31. How young he was when he made the surprisingly adult resolution to escape from the unpalatable reality of dreams into the slightly more acceptable illusions of his everyday, walking life!
Salman Rushdie
