154 Quotes About Disillusionment

"No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal."

"Pragmatists are sometimes more prone to illusion than dreamers; when they fall for something, they fall hard, not knowing how to protect themselves, while we dreamers are more practiced in surviving the disillusionment that follows when we wake up from our dreams."

"We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet."

"Roz is crying again. What she's mourning is her own good will. She tried so hard, she tried so hard to be kind and nurturing, to do the best thing. But Tony and the twins were right: no matter what you do, somebody always gets boiled."

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

"It's like when you find out your lover has been unfaithful: in one horrible instant everything she was to you, the whole beautiful enchantment, falls away, and you see her as she really is - mortal, machinating, tethered like everyone else to a little patch of space and time. And the worst of it is that you knew all along."

"The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak."

"It is perhaps a form of disillusionment similar to that experienced in many Eastern European countries the moment many people realized that they have lost whatever benefits they had under the former communist regimes without winning anything in return under the draconian, capitalist EU system of exploitation."

"Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful"