Quotes About Disillusionment

I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.

Vivaldo was unlike everyone else that he knew in that they, all the others, could only astonish him by kindness or fidelity; it was only Vivaldo who had the power to astonish him by treachery.

In America, though, life seems to move faster than anywhere else on the globe and each generation is promised more than it will get: which creates, in each generation, a furious, bewildered rage, the rage of people who cannot find solid ground beneath their feet.

I prefer the mist that surrounds me. Yes, I don't like a lot of what I see nowadays.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

We were for Mao, but when we saw the films he was making, they were bad. So we understood that there was necessarily something wrong with what he was saying.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.

For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.

When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.

I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.