Top 32 Quotes About Disenchantment
#1. Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#2. People always seemed to think that you stopped believing things in a single, lightning-bolt moment, an instantaneous revelation of loss. For her, at least, the process of disenchantment had been achingly slow.
Zoe Heller
#3. As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#5. Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
Tony Judt
#6. My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.
Robert Coover
#7. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Max Ehrmann
#9. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Zygmunt Bauman
#10. Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.
Honore De Balzac
#11. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Max Ehrmann
#12. Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
William Throsby Bridges
#13. Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality - and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.
Margaret Heffernan
#14. Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.
Caitlin Flanagan
#15. As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage
out of the impotence of his rage
the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance of his disenchantment.
Wright Morris
#16. All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#17. We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#18. Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself.
Rebecca Solnit
#19. Love that sets forth the soul like springtime and ripens it like summer. Love as rarely exists in reality, as if a master alchemist has taken it and distilled out all the impurities, every petty disenchantment, every unworthy thought, into a perfect elixir, sweet and deep and all-consuming.
Laini Taylor
#21. As soon as Don Quixote had read the inscription on the parchment he perceived clearly that it referred to the disenchantment of Dulcinea, and returning hearty thanks to heaven that he
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#22. The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
Max Weber
#23. Did not at first give vague disappointment, a confounding of reality, a disenchantment of contrast with what the mind had conceived.
Zane Grey
#24. Those were the times when the great disenchantment set in.
Leonardo Padura
#25. Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders.
Mikhail Lermontov
#26. And who shall say
whatever disenchantment follows
that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?
Thomas Wolfe
#27. Her copy of the photograph had been lost, and Hildebranda's was almost invisible, but they could both recognize themselves through the mists of disenchantment: young and beautiful as they would never be again.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#28. Well, I'm disenchanted, too. We're all disenchanted.
James Thurber
#29. I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.
Joy Davidman
#30. It dropped so low in my regard
I heard it hit the ground,
And go to pieces on the stones
At bottom of my mind;
Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less
Than I reviled myself
For entertaining plated wares
Upon my silver shelf.
Emily Dickinson
#31. Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough to love even you? Or stupid enough? Or-or-
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. Surely some revelation is at hand.
W.B.Yeats
