43 quotes found
“It's true we all build imaginary prisons for ourselves. Believe that we are trapped behind the invisible bars of the lives we have somehow carelessly constructed for ourselves, despite our youthful...”
“In freedom you form in utter disgrace,the bars of my prison this night.While you drift on currents of seraphim heights,it is I who deserve to take flight.”
“In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.”
“This is not the "relativism of truth" presented by journalistic takes on postmodernism. Rather, the ironist's cage is a state of irony by way of powerlessness and inactivity: In a world where terro...”
“As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.”
“How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.”
“They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.”
“She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.”
“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
“Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive, disillusionment may have to be mended, wounds to be healed and emotional fallouts to be taken ca...”
“There's truths you have to grow into.”
“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza roof to take leave of the beautiful city exten...”
“The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.”
“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
“We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.”
“Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.”
“You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.”
“The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.”
“Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.”
“All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this role - grateful for the frisson of importance that comes with receiving important in...”
