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
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
Joan DidionTags: innocence disillusionment self-acceptance
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
Jodi PicoultTags: disillusionment growing-up wonder open-mindedness narrow-mindedness
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)
Tags: disillusionment touch disappointment gilding idols
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
George CarlinTags: disillusionment cynicism idealism
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 DessenTags: disillusionment disappointment emotional
One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
Jodi PicoultTags: disillusionment
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
Oscar WildeTags: disillusionment dark
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel García MárquezTags: disillusionment philosophy growing-older aging-well
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. KrishnamurtiTags: disillusionment
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