Disillusioned Quotes

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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

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.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

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.

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

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

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.

We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

Sometimes we miss the miraculous of all that we have been blessed with because we're so focused on the one thing we don't have. When this happens, we become disillusioned with all that we do have.

The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people and annihilated its belief in justice.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

I became slightly disillusioned, but in a really good way that enabled me to realize that the music was the most important thing, and that the rest of it is total bullshit.

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.

You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.

A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

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

I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.

Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.

...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...

It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.