Disillusion Quotes
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My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
Harry Houdini -
It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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When she was sitting staring into space, communing with her disillusion, his heart would be wrung by their unloving beauty.
Christina Stead -
For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.
David Roediger -
You are not American citizens or members of the white man’s world. The only American citizens are the white people who are originally from Europe. So why fight a losing battle by trying to be recognized as something you are not and never will be. I am not trying to disillusion you but merely telling you the truth.
Elijah Muhammad -
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Stanley Baldwin -
In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
Tony Blair -
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno