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Disillusionment is not truth.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
I have earned my disillusionment.
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
There's truths you have to grow into.
You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.
Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.
I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
I definitely struggle with a disillusionment towards my body and my gender.
There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.
One of the key emotions a lot of people seem to be feeling is disillusionment, and what I try to do as a lyricist is touch on these emotions.
The pin-up thing took us completely by surprise. I found it hard because I got singled out, and I didn't like it. There was a lot of disillusionment.
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
Workers' disillusionment is deepened by the knowledge that, as their average wages grow slowly or stagnate, the very wealthy are growing significantly wealthier.
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.
Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.
Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.
I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.
I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing offered me the chance to be far more creative.
I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.
Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
Donald Trump did not cause America's democratic crisis of faith, he rode to power on it. Once in control, he and other populists discovered their room for manoeuvre was expanded by the same disillusionment that helped them into office.
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.
That mystic clasp of love lies not on the threshold but at the end of spiritual life, and can be reached for the most part only after much spiritual exercising, many denials, self-denials, watchings, and, it may be, the Cross of pain and disillusionment.
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.