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Tag Name "Disillusion" (49)

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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein
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Disillusion is the last illusion.
Wallace Stevens
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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
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
J. B. Priestley
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It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
Jacques Barzun
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We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Clark
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Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.
Louise J. Kaplan
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God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
Luis Palau
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Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.
Madeleine Peyroux
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
May Sarton
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley
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Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.
Orson Scott Card
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predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
Ambrose Bierce
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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
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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Antonio Gramsci
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What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?
R. D. Laing
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Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.
Bob Newhart
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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
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Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.
Carlos Castaneda
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I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.
Teri Polo
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In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.
Clifford Allbutt
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In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
Tony Blair
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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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