Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which are beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

obvious growing signs of war weariness, frustration, anger and disillusionment.

There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.