Disillusion Quotes

• Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Dream, Thinking, Expectations

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• Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Illusion, Disillusionment, Ifs

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.403, Faber & Faber

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• The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Inspirational, Political, Politics

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• He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

  John Maynard Keynes

  France, Illusion, Economics

  The Economic Consequences of the Peace ch. 3 (1919)

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• Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Funny, Dream

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.146, Princeton University Press

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• I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Money, Business

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Sky, Personality

  This Side of Paradise ch. 5 (1920)

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• I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cried, Knows

  This Side of Paradise ch. 5 (1920)

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• So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

  Francis Maude

  Support, Competition, Gains

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• 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.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Courage, Warrior

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• Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Confidence, Artist, Vote

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• I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

  John Polkinghorne

  Years, Careers, Twenties

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• I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

  Paul Weller

  Country, Thinking, People

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• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Buddhist, Catholic

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• I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another.

  Kitty Kelley

  Believe, Divorce, Catholic

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• The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  War, Progressive, Revelations

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

  Teri Polo

  Acting, Disillusioned

  "Teri Polo: Teri on a Tear". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. September 1, 2001.

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• For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.

  David Roediger

  Past, Order, White

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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

  Antonio Gramsci

  Challenges, Becoming, Illusion

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

  Judy Garland

  Children, Strange, Illusion

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  J. B. Priestley

  Birthday, Perfect, Age

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• If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions;
  if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

  Arnold Bennett

  Giving Up, Lying, Effort

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

  Kenneth Clark

  Motivational, Attitude, Inspiration

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.220, Hachette UK

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• It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Behind The Scenes, Illusion, Fame

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

  J. B. Priestley

  Age, Advertising, Perfect Life

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