There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
“You know, when you see something from the inside, you see all the corruption.” — Jeffrey Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I’ll take away your disillusionment, and replace it with an illusion.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents. — Jewel Copy Share Image
“Do what you will, the heart hardens and the soul shrinks in upon itself.” — Mikhail Lermontov 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
“In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.” — Anirudh Arun 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
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as… — Dan Simmons 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
“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
“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment. Pain and disease and unhappiness… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all… — Woody Harrelson 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
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
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
“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
“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
“Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually… — Sol Luckman 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access… — Russell Brand 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
