You're not disappointed in what it is. You're disappointed in what you thought it would be. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce 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
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it… — Isaiah Berlin 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 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
In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“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
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Sadness at that age had the pleasing texture of imprisonment: you reared and sulked against the bonds of parents and school and… — Emma Cline 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless… — John le Carre 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
“If there were no illusions, there would bo no disillusionment. But then one would have no fond memories either, with which fortify… — Mary Balogh 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
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
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and… — Kathleen Norris 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
“I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it’s even harder to recognize the truth when it’s buried underneath layers of… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Our disappointments, our defeats, our times of disillusionment, do not separate us from God Almighty. They actually draw us closer to God.… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the… — Christopher Byford Copy Share Image
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
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As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult,… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Well, sorry pet, I don't want to be fixed. Whatever your little schoolgirl brain told you about men is absurdly wrong. This… — C.J. Roberts 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
![“No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the…” quote by Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/leon-trotsky-2558_activity_no-one-revolution-up-to-now-has-brought_475561.jpg)
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