Mikhail Lermontov Quotes

The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

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.

There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

As a dream comes true, it falls flat.

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.