Best Disillusion Quotes

(On getting married at 19)
We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead. — Crystal Woods

Instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion. — May Sarton

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism. — Jacques Barzun

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned. — Anais Nin

Everyone was searching for something, conducting lively arguments, getting excited, but behind it all one felt weariness, disillusion, emptiness. — Ilya Ehrenburg

Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice. — Ouida

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal. — Thomas Ligotti

Predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion. — Ambrose Bierce

Loneliness is just a passing disillusion we can conquer by acknowledging those around us. — Jenny Cutler Lopez

Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life. — Anne Perry

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. — Miguel De Unamuno

It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning. — Leslie Ford

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live. — Paul Brunton

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it. — T. S. Eliot

To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating. — Thomas Hardy

measure up - disillusion us by showing — John Howard Griffin

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects. — Luc De Clapiers

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? — Madeleine L'Engle

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men. — Shirley Williams

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. — John Maynard Keynes

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession. — Elbert Hubbard

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen. — Mitch Hedberg

Sex, once a law as undisputed as gravity, has been disproved. The equation is erased, the blackboard broken — Isaac Marion

You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. — Sylvia Plath

It was enough to disillusion a man, Red Philips remarked, if a man were silly enough to have illusions. Red — James Brady

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions. — Mason Cooley

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. — Kenneth Clark

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet. — Orson Scott Card

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. — Tony Blair

My first poem was a bolt from the blue ... it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy — William Carlos Williams