Nor need we believe that these disillusions must necessarily give rise to moral discouragement; for the truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
"Wisdom and Destiny"
Maurice Maeterlinck
The wretched hand-to-mouth existence many of them have to live disheartens them, and makes life with them either a feast or a famine, and drives those who have brains enough to crime.
"In-Darkest-England-and-the-Way-Out"
Booth, William
There is much in politics that disgusts and disheartens; much that is coarse and bad.
"Democracy An American Novel"
Henry Adams