Disillusionment Quotes

Disillusionment Quote of the day

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

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

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

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

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

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

I'm too old to know everything

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

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.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

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

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.

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.

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

There's truths you have to grow into.

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

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

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.

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

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

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

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

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

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

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.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.

Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

I have earned my disillusionment.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

Disillusionment is not truth.

All knowledge hurts.

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.

The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

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