False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only… — Winston Groom Copy Share Image
Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The piercing fanfare of the brass against the brutal boom and rattle of the drums surged through the air. At the head… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive, disillusionment may have to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous.… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“The institution known as "school" isn't just a facility for doing classwork. It's essentially a microcosm of society, all of humanity put… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
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