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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.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents. — Jewel

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. — Joan Didion

I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me. — Norman Lock

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

The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application. — Bob Lewis

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

You know, when you see something from the inside, you see all the corruption. — Jeffrey Goldberg

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak. — Kate Forsyth

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart. — Mae West

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly. — Nelson Mandela

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

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. — Bell Hooks

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment. — Art Spander

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

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden. — Selena Kitt

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

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child. — Judy Garland

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

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. — Sheri Holman

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

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. — Henry Miller

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. — Bryant H. McGill

There is no disillusionment about India as far as I am concerned. There could never come a time when I would get disillusioned with my own country. — Dilip Kumar

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

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

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

We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life. — Matt Chandler

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

I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian. — Joy Davidman

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it. — Andy Warhol

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. — George Santayana

I'm too old to know everything — Oscar Wilde

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state. — Will Durant

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

The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment. — C.S. Lewis

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

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant. — Rae Foley

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. — Oscar Wilde

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

In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do. — Anirudh Arun

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

I'm not so sure that home is a place you can still get to by train. — Jon 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

Sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ... — John Geddes

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