Disillusion Quotes

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In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. — Tony Blair
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the… — W. Somerset Maugham
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. — John Maynard Keynes
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside… — Clifford Allbutt
Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movieÂ starÂ Iâ€™ve been admiring since childhood.… — Marilyn Monroe
My first poem was a bolt from the blue â€¦ it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. â€¦ it filled me with soul… — William Carlos Williams
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my… — Harry Houdini
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the… — Barbara Tuchman
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only… — Naomi Wolf
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it… — Susan Griffin
Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others.… — Gertrude Stein
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst… — J I Packer
Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of… — Kenny Smith
No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of… — H. L. Mencken
Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism. — Jacques Barzun
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live. — Paul Brunton
Disillusion is the last illusion. — Wallace Stevens
predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion. — Ambrose Bierce

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