Top 24 Illusions Shattered Quotes
#1. 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.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there's so many words and they get so crowded in my skull I think my head is gonna explode. I want to write them down. I've tried, but most of the time my thoughts and my feelings are bigger than what I can get on paper.
Carolee Dean
#3. Burglars are getting very clever these days. Last night, my wife woke me up, "Darling! Darling! There's a burglar downstairs!!" So I go down, check every room and don't find anyone. Then I realized I don't have a wife and when I went back upstairs my bed and TV were gone.
Steve Evans
#4. I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.
Hugh Bonneville
#5. With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.
Osho
#6. 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
#7. Be creative. Unlock your imagination. Open your noggin. Do anything.
Scott Schafer
#8. Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.
Hector Berlioz
#9. When his head cleared a little, Roman found that he had the boy cradled against his chest, his fingers carding through the moist curls. Luke was nuzzling into his collarbone, all but purring. He really was such a kitten. "Why
Alessandra Hazard
#10. Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there.
Noel DeJesus
#11. Grief has this that is noble in it - it accepts all sympathy, come whence it may. She
Wilkie Collins
#12. Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.
Mary Baker Eddy
#13. The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.
Boris Vian
#14. I may be a creature of the night," he wiggled the fingers of his free hand in the air in mock spookiness, "but I happen to enjoy running water and electricity." I snapped my fingers in an aw shucks gesture and said mournfully, "You've shattered all of my illusions.
Sara C. Roethle
#15. The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.
Charles Wright
#16. The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
Nick Clegg
#18. Illusions are bound to be shattered
Rajneesh
#19. Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.
LeVar Burton
#20. When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.
Lian Hearn
#21. Had Eudokia been granted divinity she'd have found something better to do with it than watching two old farts in ugly robes mutter gibberish over summer wine.
Daniel Polansky
#22. Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.
George Washington Carver
#23. 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
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