Disillusionment Quotes - Page 5

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

  Camille Paglia

  Violence, Cynicism, Barbarism

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Duplicity, Brain, Usual

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.396, Hamilton Books

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Life, Goes On, Illusion

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Independent, Past

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• 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?

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Writing, India

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Type, Disappointed

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Teaching, Reading

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• 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.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Years, Building

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• I have earned my disillusionment.

  Ani DiFranco

  Philosophy

  Song: Not A Pretty Girl Complete Album, Album: Not a Pretty Girl

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• Disillusionment is not truth.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Friendship, Old Friends, Shakes

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of reliance on governing functions. Most people don’t want to come to terms with that. It’s been proven over and over again that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes, but most people don’t like to look at naked emperors. In the process of turning around to avert their eyes, they saw the discotheques and a few other things and latched onto them.

  Frank Zappa

  Eye, Clothes, People

  Oui interview, 1979.

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• This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Kissing

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• Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Spiritual, Hurt, Healing

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• I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Overcoming, Misery

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.58, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

  Dan Simmons

  Identity, Tests, Acid

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.231, Spectra

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• And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

  Brennan Manning

  Jobs, Insecure, Men

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.19, Multnomah

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• Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Political, Despair

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• 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.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Trying, Viruses

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

  Lynda Barry

  Wall, Real, Cat

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• Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred acre wood to play in with her little stuffed animals. There was pain and crushing disillusionment and betrayal.

  Christine Feehan

  Crush, Pain, Betrayal

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• Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Reality, Discovery

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• Maybe the bride-bed brings despair,
  For each an imagined image brings
  And finds a real image there...

  William Butler Yeats

  Marriage, Real, Despair

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.132, Library of Alexandria

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• To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Fall, Desire, World

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1988). “Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Vintage

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

  Abraham Maslow

  Mean, Optimism, Hopelessness

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