Top 19 Disillusionment Quotes

Here we have the best Disillusionment Quotes from famous authors such as Noam Chomsky, Bryant H. McGill, George Santayana, Beau Willimon, David Horsey. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations

In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Bryant H. McGill

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

George Santayana

Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you’re setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

Maybe it’s stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

The pin-up thing took us completely by surprise. I found it hard because I got singled out, and I didn’t like it. There was a lot of disillusionment.

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

Workers‘ disillusionment is deepened by the knowledge that, as their average wages grow slowly or stagnate, the very wealthy are growing significantly wealthier.

Guy Ryder

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a ‘bust‘ when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.

The novel is like a melancholy form. It’s about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won‘t inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Manly Hall

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.

Alan K. Simpson

I definitely struggle with a disillusionment towards my body and my gender.

Esme Creed-Miles

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

Jackie Robinson

I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.

Woody Harrelson