32 Quotes On Disillusionment

In the journey of life, we all encounter moments where the veil of illusion is lifted, revealing a stark contrast between our expectations and reality. Disillusionment, while often perceived negatively, is a profound aspect of human experience that can lead to deeper understanding and personal growth. It challenges our preconceived notions and invites us to reassess our beliefs and values. To navigate this complex emotion, it's helpful to draw upon the wisdom of thinkers, writers, and philosophers who have explored the depths of disillusionment. In this blog post, we present a curated collection of 32 insightful quotes that capture the essence of disillusionment, offering both solace and reflection for those who seek a new perspective.

1. “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.” - Kurt Vonnegut

2. “Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.” - Joan Didion

3. “Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.” - George Carlin

4. “Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.” - Marilyn Monroe

5. “I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.” - Christopher Pike

6. “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

7. “Life is not a song, sweetling.Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.” - George R.R. Martin

8. “There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.” - Anne Rice

9. “I'm too old to know everything” - Oscar Wilde

10. “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.” - Henry Miller

11. “All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.” - Jean Jacques Rousseau

12. “One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.” - Jodi Picoult

13. “I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.” - Oscar Wilde

14. “If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: 'Why have you grown up such a dull dog, when I gave you such a good start? Why have you spent your time in dusty libraries, catologuing other people's books instead of writing your own? What had become of the Ram, the Bull and the Lion, the example I gave you to emulate? Where above all is the Virgin, with her shining face and curling tresses, whom I entrusted to you'- what should I say?I should have an answer ready. 'Well, it was you who let me down, and I will tell you how. You flew too near to the sun, and you were scorched. This cindery creature is what you made me.'To which he might reply: 'But you have had half a century to get over it! Half a century, half the twentieth century, that glorious epoch, that golden age that I bequeathed to you!''Has the twentieth century,' I should ask, 'done so much better than I have? When you leave this room, which I admit is dull and cheerless, and take the last bus to your home in the past, if you haven't missed it - ask yourself whether you found everything so radiant as you imagined it. Ask yourself whether it has fulfilled your hopes. You were vanquished, Colston, you were vanquished, and so was your century, your precious century that you hoped so much of.” - L.P. Hartley

15. “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

16. “When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.” - J. Krishnamurti

17. “All knowledge hurts.” - Cassandra Clare

18. “There's truths you have to grow into.” - H.G. Wells

19. “Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.” - Joe L. Wheeler

20. “How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.” - Judy Garland

21. “She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave.Or so she'd thought.” - Connie Brockway

22. “The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.” - Bart D. Ehrman

23. “It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.” - Anna Godbersen

24. “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

25. “My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. I looked at my love: that feeling which had been my master's --- which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr Rochester's arms --- it could not derive warmth from his breast. Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted -- confidence destroyed!” - Charlotte Brontë

26. “Love is a disease of the youth; most of us go through it. A few are cured, the rest are disabled.” - Martin Foreman

27. “We are sorry about the way things turned out. We gave, in the phrasing of our words if not literally in the words themselves, the false impression that these pages might hold some small fragment, some slight fragrance of a greater truth. That there might be something here to be learned. Before we go any further the author of this cartoon wishes to make an apology. Such an impression was deliberately cultivated. It is a ruse. It is a lie. We are every bit as lost and afraid as children abandoned in a wood: every bit as lost as you.” - Anders Nilsen

28. “I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.” - Bauvard

29. “Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they’re capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life is full of people who find that they’re capable of so much less.” - Amethyst Marie

30. “In freedom you form in utter disgrace,the bars of my prison this night.While you drift on currents of seraphim heights,it is I who deserve to take flight.” - Craig Froman

31. “No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.” - Thomas Ligotti

32. “After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.” - Zeena Schreck