#disillusion

Love is a disease of the youth; most of us go through it. A few are cured, the rest are disabled. ↗

We are sorry about the way things turned out. We gave, in the phrasing of our words if not literally in the words themselves, the false impression that these pages might hold some small fragment, some slight fragrance of a greater truth. That there might be something here to be learned. Before we go any further the author of this cartoon wishes to make an apology. Such an impression was deliberately cultivated. It is a ruse. It is a lie. We are every bit as lost and afraid as children abandoned in a wood: every bit as lost as you. ↗

— Anders Nilsen

#comradery #disillusionment #fear #humanism #lost

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#nature

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#innocence #self-acceptance #respect

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#growing-up #narrow-mindedness #open-mindedness #wonder #kids

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. ↗