Disillusion Quotes - Page 4

• In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

  Tony Blair

  Government, Challenges, Next

  Valedictory Address to the Labour Party Conference, delivered 26 September 2006, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?

  R. D. Laing

  Song, Decay, Done

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.

  Ouida

  Trust, Fate, Died

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• This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.75, Northwestern University Press

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• Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Grief, Passion, Heart

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• Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

  Orson Scott Card

  Breakfast, Please, Havens

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.37, Macmillan

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• There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

  J. I. Packer

  Determination, Discovery, Knowing

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Regret, Disappointment

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life. By taking risks’ she said to Brida. ‘ By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soulmate, Disappointment, Long

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• It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Couple, Passion, Heart

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