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
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents. — Jewel Copy Share Image
“You know, when you see something from the inside, you see all the corruption.” — Jeffrey Goldberg Copy Share Image
“In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.” — Anirudh Arun Copy Share Image
When everything is finally okay and I'm happy I can't help but expect everything to fall apart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.” — Richard Price Copy Share Image
“Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive, disillusionment may have to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste… — Gustave Flaubert 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 book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“In freedom you form in utter disgrace, the bars of my prison this night. While you drift on currents of seraphim heights,… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry.… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
“It was a gift. What did I do with it? Life didn't accumulate as I'd once imagined. I graduated from boarding school,… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments,… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
Maybe the reality-based fractions of red and blue America are reaching a sort of consensus: Just as Republicans are beginning to get… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous.… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be… — H G Wells Copy Share Image
The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application. — Bob Lewis Copy Share Image
You're not disappointed in what it is. You're disappointed in what you thought it would be. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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