As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held… — William Robertson Nicoll Copy Share Image
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our… — William Throsby Bridges Copy Share Image
Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
“Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because… — Simon Romero Copy Share Image
I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.” — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. — Kim Stanley Copy Share Image
The challenge is for us to reinvigorate the relationship with the Chilean people and to give state institutions new legitimacy. But this… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
“When love gets on a slippery slope, unawareness or indifference might be the underpinning of disenchantment and falling out of love. (“Amour… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results;… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
