Disillusion Quote by May Sarton Download Open image “instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.” — May Sarton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disillusion Instant Intimacy
Intimacy is about acceptance - without acceptance intimacy becomes either an illusion or an exercise in futility and frustration. — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
True intimacy is the experience of real acceptance and authentic vulnerability without feeling the need to apologize or fear rejection. The freedom to just… — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“intimacy that can be had, even in a crowded room, when two people want only” — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that breaks out with clenched teeth and weeps; the sinking feeling… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.” — Bonnie Eaker Weil Copy Share Image
Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton 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
