Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of…

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that…

— Thomas Aquinas

“People often ask me if the book was emotional or difficult to write. Emotional, yes. I typed through a lot of tears. But it…

— Gayle Forman

Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.

— Meghan O'Rourke

And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it…

— Gayle Forman

That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance…

— Andrew Solomon

“She was a stranger because something essential was shielded, released in tiny bursts until it became a flood---a flood of what I realized I…

— Carmen Maria Machado

“[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned…

— Joan D. Vinge

“Disillusionment [is] one of the deepest of human wounds.”

— Ann Perry

A Pitiful person who is afraid of taking risks, will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps he won't suffer the way people do when…

— Anonymous

“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

Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Leaches Ten Tall by Stewart Stafford Don't play this game with me, Predatory whelk of tide pools, Taint me as Rigoletto to a bawd,…

— Stewart Stafford

I definitely struggle with a disillusionment towards my body and my gender.

— Esme Creed-Miles

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

— Henry Adams

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce