Disillusionment quotes

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◆ Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

- Marilyn Monroe100

◆ It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez99

◆ Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion

- Miguel De Unamuno99

◆ Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

- George Santayana99

◆ The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

- Art Spander99

◆ It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

- Manly Hall99

◆ Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

- Stephen R Covey99

◆ Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

- Joseph Priestley99

◆ Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

- Bryant H McGill99

◆ I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

- H P Lovecraft99

◆ The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

- Ralph A Cram99

◆ So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

- Jewel Kilcher99

◆ The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

- Antonio Gramsci99

◆ There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette99

◆ And the people weve become, well, theyve never been the people who we are.

- Rob Thomas99