154 Quotes About Disillusionment

"The death of an illusion frees us from it."

"Innocence may not be all it's cracked up to be."

"Hope may be an illusion, but it's what keeps you from jumping in the river or swallowing hemlock. Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others. And back then on that day when they say it first began, I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies. I was wrong."

"PS In my last letter I casually asked if the young lady in the blue outfit in the foreground of your religious picture was Mary Magdalene the sinner. If you have not as yet replied to my letter, please go on refraining. It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life. I am willing to stay in the dark."

"Then something altogether hideous happened. The thought was forced on me that no matter how coolly or sensibly or gracefully I might one day to learn to live my life, I would always at best be a visitor in a garden of enamel urinals and bedpans, with a sightless, wooden dummy-deity standing by in a marked-down rupture truss."

"Disillusion can become itself an illusionIf we rest in it."

"For years he’d held before him the image of his lady in white. It was for that image he’d climbed mountains and gotten lost in caves and ruined his favorite shirt. Perhaps she’d turned out to be odd and distant, but he’d told himself that was not her fault. It hadn’t crushed the image of a maiden of surpassing virtue. Even her flaws were heroic flaws. She was unearthly, ingenious, insane, radiant. A goddess. Brierly wasn’t the only one who could create figments."

"Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned. ~ 22"

"Do what you will, the heart hardens and the soul shrinks in upon itself."