Andrew Solomon Quotes

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

My dreams are all follies.

This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

People always want change .... Government always raises expectations far beyond what is there.

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.

The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

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

Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they're going to be with is going to be perfect. Nobody's going to be perfect, and people are going to let you down. The only thing that you can hope for is someone that's going to be honest with you.

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!