“Hundman, like tens of thousands of other Americans, had had a wordless dream and all his life had lived a little part… — Harold Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
The distortions of society today derive from a confusion of wisdom, which is holistic, and knowledge, which is fragmentary; and an inability… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
One of the key emotions a lot of people seem to be feeling is disillusionment, and what I try to do as… — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at… — Alexander Kerensky Copy Share Image
Are there people to aspire to? Can people be strong enough to withstand all of this disillusionment? Maybe the time is right… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was a stranger because something essential was shielded, released in tiny bursts until it became a flood---a flood of what I… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“Jerusalem has a way of disappointing in tormenting both conquerors and visitors. The contrast between the real and heavenly cities is so… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“With very few exceptions I have never remained in mutual favor very long with people I have known well. They very quickly… — Thomas Cullinan Copy Share Image
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I often used to think myself inthe case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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