Disenchantment Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disenchantment Firsts Please Sight Tire
One must seek the shortest way and the fastest means to get back home-to turn the spark within into a blaze, to be merged… — Bhagawan Nityananda Copy Share Image
“To each is given its moment in the blaze, its spark to be surrendered to another when it is sent, so that the blaze… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
“Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.” — A.P Copy Share Image
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. — Jack London Copy Share Image
The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but quite a… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
