Life's Illusions Quotes

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

I think that storytelling, at its essence, allows us to feel like we all suffer the same insanity or a similar insanity of existence: that nobody escapes scot-free. We're all going to wind up - at the best-case scenario - 80, 85, 90, broken, in pain, and feeling like it was all a dream and not really understanding the point of any of it.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.