“invariably we are wandering in the outer world of disillusion where as the solution lies within.” — Pavan Raina Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
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
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day… — Harry Houdini 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
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
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
“Lost in this awful world, rubbing shoulders with the multitudes, I am like a tired man whose eye can't see behind him,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does… — Barbara W. Tuchman 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
“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
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
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
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
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan 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
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
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
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
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
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
It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on… — Arnold Bennett 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
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
“Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world,… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in… — Barbara Tuchman 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 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
