Best Disillusionment Quotes
100 Disillusionment quotes by 95 unique authors
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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
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Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation…
— Gioconda Belli
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The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.
— Henry Adams
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Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
— Gelett Burgess
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Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project…
— Amity Shlaes
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The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra…
— William Kristol
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I have earned my disillusionment.
— Ani DiFranco
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Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a…
— Ray Bradbury
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
— Ralph Adams Cram
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The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she…
— Susan Faludi
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The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above…
— E. M. Forster
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How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
— Judy Garland
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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
— Antonio Gramsci
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
— Manly Hall
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to…
— H P Lovecraft
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
— Marilyn Monroe
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at…
— J. B. Priestley
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
— George Santayana
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