disillusionment

Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.

It should not be possible for Christians to be disillusioned. We should have no illusions in the first place. Our faith is in Jesus Christ alone.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I'm too old to know everything

In many instances, the failures of my greatest schemes ultimately lead to the fulfillment of my greatest successes. Therefore, God will allow our most cherished dreams to perish so that we might turn and seek out His most cherished plans.

I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now - medals where my soul used to be.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Too often it__ about what stands before us, not what stands within us.

[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.

How can any of us even know what to believe anymore? Our culture__ full of so much phoniness and deception. Companies advertise products to make us believe that we will be more beautiful, more healthy, or live longer by consuming their products. We are seduced by lovers who feed their porn addictions when we__e asleep. We__e taught to believe that if we work hard and take risks, that we can achieve our dreams, yet youth unemployment is the highest it__ been in decades. Fairytales tell us that true love exists, but half of all marriages end in divorce.

I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it__ even harder to recognize the truth when it__ buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. It had been answered long, long ago, claimed Moss; man's very essence lay in the fact that he had elected to command. But to Stenham that seemed a shallow reply. To him wisdom consisted in the conscious and joyous obedience to natural laws, yet when he had said that to Moss, Moss had laughed pityingly. 'My dear man, wisdom is a primitive concept,' he had told him. 'What we want now is knowledge.' Only great disillusionment could make a man say such a thing, Stenham believed.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

I wish they'd conduct a national poll to find out who feels out of place and who doesn't. Just to get the numbers, you know? To get a feel for how many of us there are. Sometimes at work I get the feeling that it's got to be right up against 100%. I__l head out to the register to help out during the lunch rush and the new cashier will look so confused and lost, and then I__l look at the customers she__ supposed to be helping, and they__l look lost, too, and then when I sneak a glance toward the tables there__l be all these people staring at their food or at each other with blank looks in their eyes. And I__l think: Is this just me? Is everybody else actually fine, and I__ just trying to imagine that they__e like me? But I don__ think so. I__e thought about this a lot, and I__ pretty sure that some ridiculous percentage of the population is walking around feeling like aliens. I think teenagers feel that all the time...

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