Best Disillusionment Sayings

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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. — Gertrude Stein
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. — Miguel de Unamuno
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. — Joan Didion
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,… — E. M. Forster
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the… — W. Somerset Maugham
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried… — David McCullough
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. — Jodi Picoult
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin
There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully… — Sarah Dessen
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult… — Junot Diaz
It’s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. It’s going to take a strong will.… — Joel Osteen
One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. — Jodi Picoult
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. — Oscar Wilde
Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. — Sheri Holman
Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There's truths you have to grow into. — H.G. Wells
something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on… — Lynda Barry
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his… — Henry Miller
This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know… — Paulo Coelho
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief… — Dan Simmons
And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately… — Brennan Manning
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. — Bell Hooks
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There,… — Khaled Hosseini
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become… — Hermann Hesse

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