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Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck
Cynicism is the besetting and venial fault of declining youth, and disillusionment its last illusion.
— Francis Macdonald Cornford
You are very harsh.''I have seen the world. — Voltaire
It should not be possible for Christians to be disillusioned. We should have no illusions in the first place. Our faith is in Jesus Christ alone.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Life is not a song, sweetling.Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow. — George R R Martin
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
— George Santayana
The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Disillusionment is not truth.
— Mason Cooley
I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.
— Christopher Pike
She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.
— D.H. Lawrence
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
— Gelett Burgess
The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.
— Hunter S. Thompson
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
— Haruki Murakami
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) — Gustave Flaubert
Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it's adhering to our scripts or not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.
— Andrew Holleran
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
— Gertrude Stein
Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.
— Henry Miller
Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful
— Michael Moorcock
Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.
— E. M. Forster
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have earned my disillusionment.
— Ani DiFranco
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
— Ralph Adams Cram
We have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity.
— Wendy Walker
Failure and disillusionment are realities, but ideologies are made of dreams. And dreams, it would seem, do not fade easily.
— Miyuki Miyabe
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
— Camille Paglia
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.
— Richard Dawkins
Every day we make the whole world new ... Or else grow old.
— John Valentine
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
— Herman Melville
All knowledge hurts.
— Cassandra Clare
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child
— Charles E. Burchfield
We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
I am ashamed and deeply distressed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles.
— Wendell Berry
The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.
— Tim Hansel
Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.
— Richard Price
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
— Bryant H. McGill
I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it.
— Mary Kubica
New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.
— Mark Kurlansky
There's truths you have to grow into.
— H.G.Wells
Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.
— Joe L. Wheeler
Do what you will, the heart hardens and the soul shrinks in upon itself.
— Mikhail Lermontov
it is only experience and disillusionment that make me cautious.
— Martin Gilbert
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
— Ambrose Bierce
One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
— Jodi Picoult
Disillusionment is the enemy of prosperity and well-being
— Sunday Adelaja
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
— Jose Bergamin
Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.
— Mason Cooley
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
— Jodi Picoult
The main weapon of the devil is disillusionment
— Sunday Adelaja
As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.
— Frank Herbert
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
— George Santayana
I'm too old to know everything
— Oscar Wilde
Learn in good time to recognize disillusionment, so as to continue living your life according to the will of the Lord
— Sunday Adelaja
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
— Thomas Hardy
Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.
— Irvine Welsh
The devil sends disillusionment to such people who have the desire to do something for God
— Sunday Adelaja
No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.
— Thomas Ligotti
The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
— Bart D. Ehrman
When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.
— Harold Bloom
Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.
— Douglas Brinkley
Words drop from my lips spiraling downward; they land scattered on your ears. I spoke them green and golden, but you turned them shriveled brown.
— Patricia Robin Woodruff
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
— Manly Hall
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
— George Carlin
Love is a disease of the youth; most of us go through it. A few are cured, the rest are disabled.
— Martin Foreman
Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.
— Amanda Craig
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
— Abraham H. Maslow
The Republic cured me of the Republic.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
