The loafer believes he is enjoying life, but sooner or later he must face disillusion.
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My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with soul satisfying joy .
william carlos williamsArt is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ... Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.
claude debussyHe had one illusion France; and one disillusion mankind, including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least.
john maynard keynesThe loafer believes he is enjoying life, but sooner or later he must face disillusion .
The loafer believes he is enjoying life, but sooner or later he must face disillusion .
It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
He had one illusion — France; and one disillusion — mankind, including Frenchmen.
Georges Clemenceau