Disillusioning Quotes

#1. Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

Kathleen Norris

#2. Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Andre Maurois

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

Leslie Ford

#4. If the truth should be complex and somewhat disillusioning, it would still not be a merit to substitute for it some more dramatic and comforting simplicity.

Clarence Irving Lewis

#5. Sophisticated people seem to think that "the truth" must always be dark, disappointing, disillusioning. But this is not so at all. Most of the time, darkness, disappointment, and disillusionment are the illusion.
Truth is neutral. Our decisions determine what darkens and what lightens our lives.

Orson Scott Card

#6. I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

Christopher Cross

#7. My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#8. To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

R.D. Laing

#9. You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.

Mariah Carey

#10. I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

Douglas Rushkoff

#11. It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.

Havilah Babcock

#12. They're very keen on disillusioning young women at British universities, you know, I suppose to make us resigned and grateful later on.

Caleb Crain

#13. My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.

Vali Nasr

#14. Oh dear ... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

Nancy Mitford

#15. I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just

Billy Corgan

#16. Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

Mignon McLaughlin

#17. You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy.

John Green

#18. Let us never tire, therefore, of seeking the Lord - of letting ourselves be sought by him - of tending over our relationship with him in silence and prayerful listening. Let us keep our gaze fixed on him, the center of time and history; let us make room for his presence within us.

Pope Francis

#19. Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Martin Luther

#20. The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

Mother Teresa

#21. She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.

Jesse Plemons

#23. To me physical beauty is not the issue, vibrational beauty is and the most beautiful people I meet are those who are radiating the love and wisdom of the Divine force that breathes them.

Jasmuheen

#24. You might not say a lot, handsome, but the things you do say are priceless.

Nina Levine

#25. Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

Anton Chekhov