Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us. — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
And the people weve become, well, theyve never been the people who we are. — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
“I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only… — Winston Groom Copy Share Image
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
“...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Roz is crying again. What she's mourning is her own good will. She tried so hard, she tried so hard to be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
“The piercing fanfare of the brass against the brutal boom and rattle of the drums surged through the air. At the head… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“I’ve drawn this as a circle because the seasons will come and go. Joy always leads to another season of romance .… — Kurt Bubna Copy Share Image
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our… — Lavrentiy Beria Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
“For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when… — Yuri Bezmenov Copy Share Image
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
![“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about…” quote by Yuri Bezmenov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d23/yuri-bezmenov-90074_aim-high_t-he-useful-idiots-the-leftists-who-are_897408.jpg)
