Quotes About Disillusionment

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

My mom is really naive - she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That's not the way it works.

I will only be 29 in 2016 for the European Championships, but the French national team doesn't make me happy.

I don't trust anyone anymore," he said. "This is what the war has taught me, not to trust." He shifted his hands to grip the handles of the crutches and moved away.

Once you realized that everyone with whom you associated was, potentially, happy to literally stab you in the back, all the wondering just . . . went away.

Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet.

Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred acre wood to play in with her little stuffed animals. There was pain and crushing disillusionment and betrayal.

to experience a furious disillusionment with 'conventional' politics, a bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My reply is that you should fucking well have been there, and felt it for yourself.

I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.

She looked at him—those wide blue eyes—with sort of an odd, glazed look. Not with the adoration or wonder that you might expect, more like she'd been drinking and would be leaving as soon as she found her car keys.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland. -'City of Robots',1986

And anyone who nurtures impossible hopes is already a loser. Once you come to realize it, you just give up.

Jurgis had come there, and thought he was going to make himself useful, and rise and become a skilled man; but he would soon find out his error—for nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave.

So it is that political parties degenerate; so the common people give their devotion to a cause, and discover too late how they have been betrayed.

I just think sometimes, they were kids once. They ran about the park kicking a football. They had things they wanted to be. Nobody dreams about being that guy there. Nobody sets out to be like him. And we keep coming up against folk that have got themselves completely fucked up.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

It's just that I have seen firsthand that celebrity is not the utopia I'd imagined, and it has made me question my interpretations of the world around me.

was the dream that had brought her here and she passed it on to me. But, it was a lie. For people like us, anyway.

don't believe in love. Or marriage.

Still never had any friends because I hate everyone for they were so phony.

Love is painful, pointless and overrated.

I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.

For obvious reasons, crowds are worse than ever. My misanthropy knows no bounds. Hate rises off me like cartoon heat waves.