Stap me down with disillusion

“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

Disillusion is the last illusion.

— Wallace Stevens

Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path…

— Kenny Smith

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

— Orson Scott Card

Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the…

— Bob Newhart

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.…

— Toni Morrison

What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we…

— R. D. Laing

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

— Stanley Baldwin

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to…

— Paul Brunton

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

— Tony Blair

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it…

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in…

— Ellen Glasgow

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

— Madeleine L'Engle

There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the…

— J. I. Packer