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Quotes About Disillusioning

Oh and night: there is night, when a wind full of infinite space gnaws at our faces. Whom would it not remain for - that longed-after, mildly disillusioning presence, which the solitary heart so painfully meets. Is it any less difficult for lovers? But they keep on using each other to hide their own fate.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Maybe this is what human history was: the brief illusion of happy victories set in a long continuum of bitter, disillusioning defeats.
~ Salman Rushdie
You have your assigned sex but gender is more of a construct and I think one that is incredibly disillusioning and I think when we buy into those constructs then we start to maybe, unbeknownst to ourselves, cause real damage to our psyches.
~ Esme Creed-Miles
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Since love is a deception practiced by nature, marriage is the attrition of love and must be disillusioning. Only a philosopher can be happy in marriage and philosophers do not marry.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Well, I'm disenchanted, too. We're all disenchanted.
~ James Thurber