Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.” — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Those who genuinely appreciates you are showing you their true Love. Those who can't see your Beauty are suffering from this 'blindness'… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The pin-up thing took us completely by surprise. I found it hard because I got singled out, and I didn't like it.… — Morten Harket Copy Share Image
Nobody ever goes, 'I feel great, life's treated me fine.' It's the classic thing of having an industrial society where most people… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
“It should not be possible for Christians to be disillusioned. We should have no illusions in the first place. Our faith is… — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or… — Henry Giroux 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
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Dare to change the world There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
A Pitiful person who is afraid of taking risks, will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps he won't suffer the way people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The institution known as "school" isn't just a facility for doing classwork. It's essentially a microcosm of society, all of humanity put… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence'… — Brian Johnson Copy Share Image
“But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to… — Emma Cline 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
“He thought of his own by-now legendary novel, American Disillusionment, that cyclone which, for years, had woven its erratic path across the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“How can any of us even know what to believe anymore? Our culture’s full of so much phoniness and deception. Companies advertise… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence,… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: 'Why have you grown… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
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