“Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application. — Bob Lewis Copy Share Image
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.” — Richard Price Copy Share Image
“Do what you will, the heart hardens and the soul shrinks in upon itself.” — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new… — Amity Shlaes 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you… — Meher Baba 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
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation… — Anonymous 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
“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when… — Yuri Bezmenov Copy Share Image
Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Leaches Ten Tall by Stewart Stafford Don't play this game with me, Predatory whelk of tide pools, Taint me as Rigoletto to… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.” — Anirudh Arun Copy Share Image
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