Disenchantments Quotes

#1. All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

Sarah Hall

#2. It is so sweet, amid all the disenchantments of life, to be able to dwell in thought upon noble characters, pure affections, and pictures of happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

#3. The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

William Robertson Nicoll

#4. My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

Robert Coover

#5. Growing up, it seemed, was just a series of disenchantments. First you find out there's no Santa Claus; then you find out there's no such thing as happily-ever-after.

Jennifer Ziegler

#6. But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand.

Charles Darwin

#7. American society is still puritanical.

Nick Nolte

#8. Going to find what he was looking for there. Would you feel better if I told you I had some great photography opportunities

Laura Dave

#9. The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.

Mary Schmich

#10. They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they.

Thomas Hardy

#11. You have a lot of faith in luck, don't you? (Shahara)
Not at all. She's a vicious bitch who seldom knocks on my door. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#13. Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

Matthew Macfadyen

#14. We have photographed the trip we were supposed to have. The one where all any of us felt was happy, and the world was only beautiful, and all of the colors were the brightest versions of themselves.

Nina LaCour

#15. Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?

Richard Bach