Disenchantment Quotes

Disenchantment Quote of the day

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.

Surely some revelation is at hand.