{"quotes":[{"text":"The inaugural morning at Merston High was officially over. It was no longer a mysterious place in Melody's imagination, filled with endless possibilities and hooks on which to hang hopes for a better tomorrow. It was completely - boringly - normal. Like meeting an online crush after months of e-flirting, the reality didn't live up to the fantasy. It was dull, predictable, and way more attractive in the photos.","author":"Lisi Harrison","tags":["disappointment","disillusioned","hope-and-despair","school"],"id":48911,"author_id":"Lisi+Harrison"},{"text":"Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.","author":"Christopher Byford","tags":["alcohol","daily-life","disillusioned","disillusionment","drink","routine","sobriety","work"],"id":50608,"author_id":"Christopher+Byford"},{"text":"Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["barriers","confidence","disillusioned","disillusionment","fear","fearful","frightened","frightening","impossible","misguided","obstacles","possible","self-confidence","self-esteem","standing","stands"],"id":75875,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.","author":"Hector Berlioz","tags":["creativity","creativity-and-attitude","disillusion","disillusioned","disillusionment","imagination","music","musician","passion","passion-for-life","reality","reality-expectation","sadness"],"id":80931,"author_id":"Hector+Berlioz"},{"text":"...All my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["disillusioned","love","poetry","prayer"],"id":165653,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["destructive-human-behavior","disappointment","disillusion","disillusioned","disillusionment","human-spirit","self-loathing","self-pity"],"id":279109,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.","author":"Melanie Cusick-Jones","tags":["anger","depression","disillusioned"],"id":316562,"author_id":"Melanie+Cusick-Jones"},{"text":"Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abundance","abundant","desires","disappointed","disappointment","discouragement","disillusioned","disillusionment","goals","happiness","happy","joy","joyful","living","plan","privilege","rights","scripts"],"id":320434,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["aging","dexter-palmer","disillusioned","getting-old","growing-up","sad","sleep","the-dream-of-perpetual-motion"],"id":451976,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}