Disenchanting Quotes & Sayings

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there. — Edward De Bono

For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed. — Amor Towles

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement? — Robert Louis Stevenson

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. — Joseph Conrad

When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films. — Chuck Klosterman

How can I look at it and say, there it is - it's real. This is what is happening. It might even be a catalyst for more personal growth for me. It might be a blessing in disguise. It might not be. What's my best course of action? How can I be skillful? — Brad Willis

When a beautiful woman accompanies
someone, and if she is seated so
close to him, isn't it enough for
him to feel romantic? #LIFE OF LOVE — Santonu Kumar Dhar

That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights. — Herman Melville

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just. — Friedrich Nietzsche

They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different. — Richard M. Daley

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does. — Martin Khor

That's how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks. — Mercedes Lackey

I was afraid, though, the blame would find a way to stick to them. That's how blame was. — Sue Monk Kidd

Addiction is a terrible thing. — Jamie Dornan

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. — Hugo Chavez

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Anything to do with the Maddoxes is never boring. — Jamie McGuire

I can't say that I knocked on every door, but the few that I did didn't respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean. — Jason Falkner

Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again. — Karen Traviss