If we are suffering disappointment, it is the disappointment of an awakening: we were dreaming.
Woodrow Wilson: “If we are suffering disappointment, it is the disappointment of an awakening: we were dreaming.”
Editor's note · Context
Wilson reflects on the nature of disappointment as a sign of awakening to reality.
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