The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is just a passing disillusion we can conquer by acknowledging those around us.” — Jenny Cutler Lopez Copy Share Image
“invariably we are wandering in the outer world of disillusion where as the solution lies within.” — Pavan Raina Copy Share Image
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the… — Anonymous 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
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 danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to… — Shirley Williams 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
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
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans 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
“it’s precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that… — László Krasznahorkai 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
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
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for… — Caitlin Thomas 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
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that.… — Susan Schneider 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
The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
