Disillusionment Quotes

Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?

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

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.

In freedom you form in utter disgrace, the bars of my prison this night.While you drift on currents of seraphim heights, it is I who deserve to take flight.

When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment.

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia.

I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.

[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.

I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it’s even harder to recognize the truth when it’s buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.

Every day we make the whole world new... Or else grow old.

We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.

Stupid girl. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.

You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.

Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.

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

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

It should not be possible for Christians to be disillusioned. We should have no illusions in the first place. Our faith is in Jesus Christ alone.

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin

They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.

I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now - medals where my soul used to be.

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

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.

Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.

your facethrough the blurred visionof my disillusioned eyesmergeswith the rest of them.

Lack of sound mind and judgement – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God

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

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.