Top Disillusionment Quotes

I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.

In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing...

Disillusionment Definition

(n.) The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.

Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather...

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

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

But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to be with her. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd...

In many instances, the failures of my greatest schemes ultimately lead to the fulfillment of my greatest successes. Therefore, God will allow our most cherished dreams to perish so that we might turn...

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.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

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

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.

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

In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of other people, I thought myself terrifically constant. But now, h...

Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive, disillusionment may have to be mended, wounds to be healed and emotional fallouts to be taken care...

When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment.

Words drop from my lips spiraling downward; they land scattered on your ears. I spoke them green and golden, but you turned them shriveled brown.

All knowledge hurts.

We are sorry about the way things turned out. We gave, in the phrasing of our words if not literally in the words themselves, the false impression that these pages might hold some small fragment, some...

But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. Was that so depressing?Who knows? Maybe that...

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