Illusion Shattered Quotes

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

But the Emperor has nothing at all on!

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

In this case the emperor truly has no cloths on.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.