Disillusioned Quotes

• 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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• 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. Lovecraft

  Men, Talking, Religion

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• Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, People

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

  Luis Palau

  Illusion, Disillusionment, Disillusion

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• Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, Causes, Human Life

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

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• Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.

  Judith McNaught

  People, Giving, Trying

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• Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sentimental, Prove

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• I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

  Eddie Vedder

  Optimistic, Hopeful, Frustrated

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• To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose. They become so disillusioned that they stand still in the river and do not take the next leap.

  Colleen Houck

  Wise, Regret, Shoes

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• Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

  Paul Brunton

  Imagine, Illusion, Truth Is

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• Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

  Susan Sontag

  Hands, Way, Moral

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.114, Macmillan

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• No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Letting Go, Freedom, Self

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• We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.

  Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

  Littles, Fellows

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• 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

  Mean, Deception, Suffering

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

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• It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.

  Leslie Ford

  Disillusion

  Leslie Ford (1941). “The Murder of a Fifth Columnist”

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• I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hurt, Growing Up, Sorry

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.262, Macmillan

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• When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

  Richard J. Foster

  Things In Life, Problem, Excellent

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

  Parker J. Palmer

  Congratulations, Illusion, Lost

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• Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their back on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.

  Myles Munroe

  Walking Away, People, Parent

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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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• 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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• The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

  Saul Alinsky

  People, Illusion

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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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• One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas. Yoga and meditation, for me, is a way of, in this secular world, accessing very very beautiful principles that would perhaps make us happier, at a time when people feel disillusioned with the economy, concerned about the ecology, worried with politicians, and don't trust what they're being told on television.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Yoga, Sadness

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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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