William Butler Yeats Quotes

That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, sometimes it's just not forever. You can have the best of intentions.

Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.

If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

All romances end at marriage.

Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred acre wood to play in with her little stuffed animals. There was pain and crushing disillusionment and betrayal.

Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.