Disenchantment Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre Download Open image “Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.” — Jean-Paul Sartre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disenchantment Truth
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I would rather know the truth instead of creating an illusion in which I lie to myself. — Luis Colon Copy Share Image
The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are… — Anatoli Granovsky Copy Share Image
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“She smiled. First I lost the memory of her eyes, then the memory of her long body. I kept her smile as long as… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can’t imagine… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“If I am not mistaken, if all the signs which have been amassed are precursors of a new overthrow in my life, well then… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough to love… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial and film… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
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… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast. — William Robertson Nicoll Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image