Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

I went through a period of being disillusioned with touring.

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

Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.

I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.

You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

I am a beacon of hope to a vast number of young people and others who are still disillusioned and disgusted with the system.

Music, for me, was something I did because I was disillusioned after the Cold War's end and did not know what I wanted in life.

People are disillusioned with the BJP. Even their hardcore voters, like the traders and baniyas, are angry after demonetisation.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.

There is no disillusionment about India as far as I am concerned. There could never come a time when I would get disillusioned with my own country.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while.

I left Brazil at 17 years old in order to give my family a better life, but when I returned home two years later, I was completely disillusioned with football.

History suggests that the disillusioned and the disaffected do not readily take to the streets nor man the barricades to defend a system that failed to defend them.

I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I think to doubt Golding's view of human nature.

The whole 'anniversary of punk' thing really compounded what I thought was wrong. I was so disillusioned. I remember thinking, 'I don't want anything to do with this.'

People mistake the thrill of early love for a relationship that is capable of braving storms and get disillusioned when they find out that their partner isn't perfect.

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

I was kind of burned out, a little jaded, and just sort of disillusioned by all the 'Mighty Duck' movies and everything just being about making money and not really caring about scripts anymore.

There are times when I love the world and love everyone, and I want to talk to everyone, and other times when I feel really disillusioned, and like none of this is real, nothing is real around me.

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.

I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another.

In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.

I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

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