Disillusioned Quotes
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Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
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Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, in L'âge de raison (The Age of Reason) (1945)
I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.
dorothy day— On Pilgrimage (1948), p. 127
Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
— J. B. Priestley, "The Disillusioned", 1929; in The Balconinny, and Other Essays, 1969, p. 30.
