“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
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism --… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Sex, once a law as undisputed as gravity, has been disproved. The equation is erased, the blackboard broken” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“There is endless happiness in this world, but provided one knows the science behind it! ‘Science’ can give happiness. You have become… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
