Disenchantment Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. — William Throsby Bridges
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. — Max Ehrmann
In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. — Kim Stanley
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound. — Robert Coover
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most… — Max Weber
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death… — Zygmunt Bauman
I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the… — Robert Kennedy
Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene… — Irvine Welsh
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal… — Sarah Hall
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs,… — Andrew O'Hagan
From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with… — Bertrand Russell
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. — Zygmunt Bauman
All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the engineer from the… — Samuel Florman
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. — Max Weber
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. — Jean-Paul Sartre
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift… — Rachel Carson
She felt the abyss of disenchantment. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never… — Kim Stanley Robinson
And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and… — Thomas Wolfe

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