Quotes Tagged With :disillusion

...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements....

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even....

Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.

But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere.....

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing....

The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienation....

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front....