Disillusion Quotes

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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.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

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.

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

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

Disillusion is the last illusion.

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

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

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

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

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

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

Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life.

You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.