Top 26 Lost Illusions Quotes
#1. Mercer didn't know, but Lost Illusions was one of his personal favorites. Basically, a young poet from the provinces comes to Paris to make his fortune and, in the fullness of time, discovers that he's been wrong about everything. All the people he takes for geniuses are idiots, and vice versa.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#2. For little boys are rancorous
When robbed of any myth,
And spiteful and cantankerous
To all their kin and kith.
But little girls can draw conclusions
And profit from their lost illusions.
Phyllis McGinley
#3. There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.
Wes Anderson
#4. God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.
J.R. Ward
#5. It's the good loser who finally loses out.
Kin Hubbard
#6. Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
#7. I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.
Rene Magritte
#8. Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.
D.H. Lawrence
#10. Single-minded dedication to just one thing, without rest, respite or distraction, is only conducive to migraines, not productivity.
Claire North
#11. Running my fingers into his thick hair, I wallow in the strength and heat surrounding me before he pulls away, giving me such a happy smile it makes my heart rattle inside my chest. There's nothing better in this whole world than to be held in someone's loving stare. A stare they reserve for you.
Poppet
#12. I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.
Martin Luther
#13. The most powerful thing we have is our psyche. And to use our minds, we must be clear, vulnerable and open, which will take us to places we didn't even know were there or couldn't imagine ourselves going.
Gary Busey
#14. If we confuse material illusions with spiritual purpose, then we'll be lost in the fire of desire, which increases through the emotions of greed and selfishness.
Daniel Marques
#15. We lost the war and it is not a surprise because we entered it with everything Eastern of the illusions of speeches. We invoke Antar and yet cannot slay a fly, because we entered it with the logic of the reed and the flute.
Nizar Qabbani
#16. I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ...
John Geddes
#18. The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed.
Avatar The Last Airbender
#19. [If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow familiar and comfortable with the very place you shouldn't be in.
A.J. Darkholme
#20. What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.
MacDonald Harris
#21. A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are costly only when lost.
Wislawa Szymborska
#23. Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#24. The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.
S. N. Goenka
#25. The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
James Jones
#26. Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure.
Mike Krieger
