Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment. — Art Spander 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
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. — Gustave Flaubert 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
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. — Camille Paglia 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 saw the priest take note of the time. What time was it? Then I felt his finger on my forehead. And… — Lorena Cassady 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
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
“I’ve drawn this as a circle because the seasons will come and go. Joy always leads to another season of romance .… — Kurt Bubna Copy Share Image
The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our… — Lavrentiy Beria 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
“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
“The piercing fanfare of the brass against the brutal boom and rattle of the drums surged through the air. At the head… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had… — Lev Shestov 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
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
“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
“All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His… — Ray Bradbury 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
“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
“Leaches Ten Tall by Stewart Stafford Don't play this game with me, Predatory whelk of tide pools, Taint me as Rigoletto to… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there... — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“modern man is the victim of his own disillusionment; he has been disinherited by his own analytic strength.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image