disillusionment quotes

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The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
Disillusionment is not truth.
Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.
It dropped so low in my regard
I heard it hit the ground,
And go to pieces on the stones
At bottom of my mind;
The people of Western Europe are facing this summer a series of tragic dilemmas. Of the hopes that dazzled the last twenty years t ...
The world was a huge ball then, the universe a might harmony of ellipses, everything moved mysteriously, incalculable distances th ...
The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attach ...
I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some un ...
Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
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