Disillusionment Quotes

• There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Disappointment
  • Rely

• 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.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Surprise
  • Disillusionment
  • Pin Up

• We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous. We are concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in hats. We are impressed by advertisements that insist we must be alluring; we must adopt a time-consuming coiffure, we must spend hours with the "beautician," we must attend fashion shows. As long as women are preoccupied with nonessentials we shall be afflicted with infantilism, passivity, and the eventual disillusionment that results from trivial, unproductive lives.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Animal

• 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.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Period
  • Technologies
  • Followed

• 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.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Girls
  • Illusion
  • Recover

• The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.

  

  Alexander Kerensky
  • People
  • World
  • Suffering

• The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.

  

  Bob Lewis
  • Technology
  • Disillusionment
  • Life Cycle

• The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.

  

  Art Spander
  • Chance
  • Greater
  • Disillusionment

• No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Revolution
  • Reaction
  • Raised

• And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Death
  • Grace
  • Grow