Illusion Loss Quotes

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.

Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.