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

  • Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

    Age   Hours   Decline  
  • Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.

    Years   Four   Election  
    Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.455, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this point, with the distrust that's there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.

    Hero   Focus   Needs  
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  • Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the validity of Darwinian claims. In fact, the number of biologists who have expressed some degree of disillusionment is practically endless.

    Past   Numbers   Firsts  
    Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub
  • The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But their expectations are in vain: bitter disillusionment awaits them. He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.

    "The Current Digest of the Soviet Press". Issued by the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies, p. 9, 1953.
  • Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.

  • The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

  • Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

    Loss   Sorrow   Despair  
    "Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 1991.
  • Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

  • 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.

  • Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Witty  
  • One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

    Loss   Innocence   Trauma  
    Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
  • Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

    Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins
  • The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

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

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

    Book   Teaching   Reading  
  • If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.

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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.

  • 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.

    Wall   Real   Cat  
  • 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.

    Dream   Book   Kissing  
  • All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came about only because of the failure to view clearly the majesty of God.

    Spiritual   Grief   Men  
  • Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.

  • Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

    Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House
  • The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.

    David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.643, Simon and Schuster
  • You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

  • I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

    Mother   Moon   Reality  
    William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.109, Library of Alexandria
  • 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.

    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
  • 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?

    Book   Writing   India  
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