The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment. — Art Spander Copy Share Image
“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Our disappointments, our defeats, our times of disillusionment, do not separate us from God Almighty. They actually draw us closer to God.… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the… — Christopher Byford Copy Share Image
“I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it’s even harder to recognize the truth when it’s buried underneath layers of… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Well, sorry pet, I don't want to be fixed. Whatever your little schoolgirl brain told you about men is absurdly wrong. This… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a… — John Major Copy Share Image
something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Are there people to aspire to? Can people be strong enough to withstand all of this disillusionment? Maybe the time is right… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“Sophisticated people seem to think that "the truth" must always be dark, disappointing, disillusioning. But this is not so at all. Most… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult,… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
“Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they’re capable of so much more than they imagined they were.… — Amethyst Marie Copy Share Image
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at… — Alexander Kerensky Copy Share Image
In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
One of the key emotions a lot of people seem to be feeling is disillusionment, and what I try to do as… — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
“If there were no illusions, there would bo no disillusionment. But then one would have no fond memories either, with which fortify… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The distortions of society today derive from a confusion of wisdom, which is holistic, and knowledge, which is fragmentary; and an inability… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“Hundman, like tens of thousands of other Americans, had had a wordless dream and all his life had lived a little part… — Harold Sinclair Copy Share Image
Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image