I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.
BauvardTags: humor disillusionment growing-up cynicism childhood funny idealism
Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence, for I was certain that he wanted me to believe he was no more than a harmless man who happened to use vampirism to get what he desired. Some remnant of his mesmerism was still upon me. I had never been able to shake the feeling that he was tucked away in a corner of my mind, that he could read my thoughts, know what I was thinking. He had done something to me, but what that was, I had never been able to discover. All I knew was that the feeling had been with me since the morning I woke up and found myself in Venice.
Melika Dannese HickTags: disillusionment marked vampires vampirism venice mesmerism corcitura vladec-salei eric-bradburry fears-for-sanity
In freedom you form in utter disgrace,
the bars of my prison this night.
While you drift on currents of seraphim heights,
it is I who deserve to take flight.
Tags: disillusionment pain sorrow
In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.
Anirudh ArunTags: disillusionment reality ideas
Multitasking is a highly overrated thing if you ask me. Today, we do everything in twos and threes. There is no longer time to stand and gaze, to look and ponder and to let your mind harmlessly wander. Everything goes around at such a breakneck pace. I almost envy my grandparents. Their lives were mostly devoid of Televisions and completely Computer free! I cannot imagine what my life would be today without the internet – forget even the computer – but I’d love to know how it would feel.
Anirudh ArunTags: disillusionment reality modernity
In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of other people, I thought myself terrifically constant. But now, here I am, dragging a frayed line, and my anchor gone.
John SteinbeckTags: disillusionment constancy incongruity cool-words vacillation
No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.
Thomas LigottiTags: disillusionment defeat giving-up give-up disillusion disillusioned
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.
Zeena SchreckTags: truth progress disillusionment reality ignorance illusion discovery impermanence spiritual-transformation
When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the groundswell of traffic on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and looked at the glare of the big angry city hanging over the shoulder of the hills through which the boulevard had been cut. Far off the banshee wail of police or fire sirens rose and fell, never for very long completely silent. Twenty four hours a day somebody is running, somebody else is trying to catch him. Out there in the night of a thousand crimes, people were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy tires. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. People were hungry, sick; bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. I didn't have one. I didn't care. I finished the drink and went to bed.
Raymond ChandlerTags: disillusionment crime los-angeles southern-california
Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena KittTags: fear disillusionment lost fate religion paradise doom destiny erotic greek-mythology regret regrets eden fates erotica predestination omen doomed cursed meant-to-be selena-kitt
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