Quotes about Disillusionment
In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.
— Tina Fey
Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
— Mark Twain
Don't get so consumed by and focused on the mess—the feelings of rejection, hurt, and disillusionment—that you miss the miracle.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us. We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.
— Maya Angelou
You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.
— Roseanne Barr
Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.
— Kathleen Norris
As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
— John Knox
cow. It finished opera for me for years.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen, thine, cometh, aweary —the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unhappy lovers—I could now see—faintly ridiculous, like poor moping Miss Violence herself. Soft-edged, blurry, soggy, like a bun fallen into the water. Nothing you'd want to touch
— Margaret Atwood
In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)
— Philip Yancey
When Christians feel crushed by such "people of God," faith is exposed as something that just doesn't work here and now. And if something doesn't work, intellectual arguments for staying in the faith lose their appeal over time. Why bother?
— Peter Enns
Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.
— F Scott Fitzgerald