Damien Rice

When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

Irish Musician

Matt Dillon

I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're not getting what you want, and you're always striving and looking ahead instead of just being in the moment.

American Actor

Adam Rickitt

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

British Actor

Malorie Blackman

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

British Writer

Giacomo Leopardi

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Italian Poet

Adam Green

To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

American Director

James Sinegal

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

American Businessman

Judy Norton

Actually, for several years, I'd been looking to leave L.A. I was getting more and more disenchanted with it; the smog, the traffic.

C. S. Lewis

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

American Poet

Use 'disenchanted' when someone's positive expectations change to disappointment.

Expectations Shift

'Disenchanted' indicates a change in feelings, often from hopeful to doubtful.

Emotional Change

'Disenchanted' suggests a gradual loss of enchantment, not a sudden shock.

Not Shocked

Use 'disenchanted' when trust in the value of something is gone.

Lost Trust

Often used when there's been a personal or emotional investment.

Investment Involved

Even though examples mention jobs, 'disenchanted' applies to any aspect of life.

Not Just for Work

 of it it was the saddest place I'd ever seen the most exuberant the most disenchanted the most romantic and idealistic the most dilapidated in some ways and the most vibrant in others and so because it was this cluster of paradoxes it it were fused to settle

Pico Iyer: A Portable...

 Now, she moved from knowledge to wisdom. She moved from knowing in her head that smoking was bad for her to knowing it in her bones, and the spell of smoking was broken. She started to become disenchanted with her behavior.