Alice Lowe Quotes

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.