To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating.
To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating.
This is the end of an epic tale, the story of my coming of age, which, like in the novels of the same description, went from wonder to ambition, from ambition to disillusion, and from disillusion to cynicism.
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
The serene philosophy of the pink rose is steadying. Its fragrant, delicate petals open fully and are ready to fall, without regret or disillusion, after only a day in the sun. It is so every summer. One can almost hear their pink, fragrant murmur as they settle down upon the grass 'Summer, summer, it will always be summer.'
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.
LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given.
He Clemenceau had one illusion - France and one disillusion - mankind.
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others disillusion.
Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.
Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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