His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion.
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.
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.
predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.
Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.
Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.
Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction.
It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.
Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.
Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.
Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e. g. , the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.
