Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Tags: humor disillusionment growing-up



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Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

Joan Didion

Tags: innocence disillusionment self-acceptance



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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Jodi Picoult

Tags: disillusionment growing-up wonder open-mindedness narrow-mindedness



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Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)

Gustave Flaubert

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Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

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There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

Sarah Dessen

Tags: disillusionment disappointment emotional



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One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

Jodi Picoult

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Oscar Wilde

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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Gabriel García Márquez

Tags: disillusionment philosophy growing-older aging-well



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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

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