#disillusion

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#born #despair #disillusionment #novel #poem

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

— Kenneth Clark

#cynicism #destroy #disillusion #effectively #just

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

— Luis Palau

#begin #disillusioned #god #had #illusions

When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived. ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

#orphans #life

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#legends #life #life

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden. ↗

— Selena Kitt

#destiny #disillusionment #doom #doomed #eden

In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#heartbreak #romantic

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#great #great war #progressive #revelation #war

There's truths you have to grow into. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#maturity #love

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

— Tony Blair

#always #carry #challenge #disillusion #each