Quotes of: Disillusion Keyword

To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, le...

Matthew Davis

He who lives on illusions, dies of disillusion.

South American

There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me , so that no discovery can disillusion him about me , in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and qu...

Knowing God

... but he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from what she had expected, less sensational and less touching; he was afraid, too, lest, disillusioned in the matter of art, she might at the same time ...

Swann's Way

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

Teri Polo

People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.

John Rhys-Davies

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

Woody Harrelson

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Kenneth Clark

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Aldous Huxley

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

Antonio Gramsci

Someone once told me that life wasn't fair...and they were right. But I don't think that life was ever meant to be fair or perfect. It's not the tragedy, it's how we deal with it. It's whether we come out stronger because of it. It's not about blocki...

Coming Apart: The Disillusioning Art of Shell Formation, Volume 1

Critical and feminist theorists show that most leadership research, including studies of transformational leadership, continue to present prescriptions - heroic or post-heroic - as if they were gender neutral. The critics argue that, although there i...

Leadership for the Disillusioned: Moving Beyond Myths and Heroes to Leading That Liberates

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

Antonio Gramsci

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Luis Palau

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Tony Blair

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

Ann Voskamp

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

Dave Davies

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

J. B. Priestley

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

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

Ralph Fiennes