It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad,… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. — Luis Palau Copy Share Image
I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life...… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just… — James McCartney Copy Share Image
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
