Disillusion Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disillusion Disillusionment Illusion
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense. — Jihae Copy Share Image
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
