154 Quotes About Disillusionment

"There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. No car, no car stereo, no silver bracelets, no shuffling, no dark blue tweed suits."

"I ended my time in Intelligence convinced that my country’s operating system—its government—had decided that it functioned best when broken."

"It is time to put aside dreaming. Fairy tales are sweet on winter nights, nothing more."

"Therefore, if we built splendid castles, and pictured beautiful scenes, among the fervid coals of the hearth around which we were clustering, and if all went to rack with the crumbling embers, and have never since arisen out of the ashes, let us take to ourselves no shame. In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world’s improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice in a lifetime."

"In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do."

"We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state."

"I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it’s even harder to recognize the truth when it’s buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like."

"Through the whole spiritual process, what we learn is to disillusion this false ego. The annihilation of this false ego is its disillusionment. When once it is disillusioned, then the true ego realizes its own merit. It is in this realization that the soul enters the kingdom of God. It is in this realization that the soul is born again, a birth which opens the doors of heaven."

"In previous times, you'd have been worshiped… Or killed… Depending upon the current theology."