Disillusionment Quotes

Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

— Herman Melville

Love is an illusion…a beautiful illusion.!

— Simi Ngr

“Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.”

— Thomas Hardy

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

— George Santayana

I have earned my disillusionment.

— Ani DiFranco

There's truths you have to grow into.

— Anonymous

Realities gone, disillusionment's real.

— Offspring

Disillusionment is not truth.

— Mason Cooley

“Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.”

— Richard Price

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

— Franz Grillparzer

The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.

— Bob Lewis

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be.

— Anonymous

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

— J. B. Priestley

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

— George Carlin

“The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.”

— Kate Forsyth

And the people weve become, well, theyve never been the people who we are.

— Rob Thomas

“[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder…

— Joan D. Vinge

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they…

— Anonymous

“In this day and age — the great age of modernists — you don’t ruin a love by being unfaithful or unjust;…

— Laura Chouette

That awkward moment when you see a status with your lovers name. & turns out the one stalkinq him/her is just a…

— Erica Jade Montoya

I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism,…

— Ruskin Bond

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards…

— Zeena Schreck

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

— Bell Hooks

“She herself, she said, had visited the very depths of disillusionment in the male character by being honest in precisely this way:…

— Rachel Cusk

“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

A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have…

— Anonymous

“Most humans who have been reared with the creature comforts of the spiritually vacuous industrialized Western world will cease their search [for…

— Zeena Schreck

“This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we…

— Paulo Coelho

There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something…

— Jhonen Vasquez

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

A Pitiful person who is afraid of taking risks, will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps he won't suffer the way people…

— Anonymous

Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for…

— Quentin L. Cook

“Multitasking is a highly overrated thing if you ask me. Today, we do everything in twos and threes. There is no longer…

— Anirudh Arun

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation…

— Anonymous

“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

“[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

“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

I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting…

— Ivan Goncharov

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

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