Disillusion Quotes
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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 williams— The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951) [W. W. Norton & Co., 1967, ISBN 978-0811202268]
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.
kenneth clark— Ch. 13: Heroic Materialism
Art 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 debussy— Unsourced variant: Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
He had one illusion France; and one disillusion mankind, including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least.
john maynard keynes— On Georges Clemenceau, in Chapter III, pg.32
The loafer believes he is enjoying life, but sooner or later he must face disillusion .
— Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, Lulu Press (Raleigh, NC, USA), , 2nd ed. 2014 (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported License), p. 33.
The loafer believes he is enjoying life, but sooner or later he must face disillusion .
— Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, 2014, p. 33.
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.
— Kenneth Clark, Ch. 13: Heroic Materialism, Civilisation (1969)
He had one illusion — France; and one disillusion — mankind, including Frenchmen.
Georges Clemenceau— John Maynard Keynes in The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Ch. 3
