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Quotes About Disillusionment

I am trash," Tyler said. I am trash and shit and crazy to you and this whole fucking world," Tyler said to the union president. You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Marla's heart looked the way my face was. The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is the deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right and your life would amount to something.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Encontré la libertad. Perder toda esperanza era la libertad
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The moment the colorful papier-mâché burst, instead of Tootsie Rolls or Hershey's Kisses, everyone present was showered with Vicodins, Darvons, Percodans, amyl nitrate ampoules, LSD stamps, and assorted barbiturates. The now-wealthy, now-middle-aged parents were ecstatic, while my little friends and I couldn't help but feel a tad bit cheated.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we are just learning this fact. [...] So don't fuck with us.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's all going down, man. So fuck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact, Tyler said. So don't fuck with us.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it Entourage. This is how bad your life can get.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
JesteÅ›my niekochanymi dzie?mi historii, wychowanymi na telewizji, która przez lata wmawiaÅ'a nam, ?e pewnego dnia zostaniemy milionerami i gwiazdami filmowymi, i gwiazdami rocka, ale tak siÄ™ nie stanie. I to wÅ'aÅ›nie teraz do nas dociera. WiÄ™c nie zadzieraj z nami.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us." The
~ Chuck Palahniuk
hope is just another phase you'll grow out of. Who
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To vÅ¡e se dÄ›je až poté, co se ukázalo, že to celé o Velikono?ním zají?kovi byl kec. I po odhalení podvod? s JežíÅ¡kem a s vílou kmotÃ…â"¢i?kou a se svatým KryÅ¡tofem a s newtonovskou fyzikou a s modelem atomu podle Nielse Bohra, i potom ten pitomý klu?ina poÃ…â"¢ád v??il mamce.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
perchè appena uno trova una buona ragione per farle, le cose perdono il loro fascino.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Somos los hijos medianos de la historia, educados por la televisión para creer que un día seremos millonarios y estrellas de cine y estrellas de rock, pero no es así.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am Jack's wasted life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash. Anything you're ever proud of will be thrown away. And I'm lost inside. This is as close as I've been to sleeping in almost a week.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It wasn't only the boosted experiences that bothered Rant. It was dipshit kids done up as soldiers and princesses and witches. Eating cake flavored with artificial vanilla. Celebrating a harvest that didn't occur anymore. Fruit punch that came from a factory. A ritual to placate ghosts, or whatever bullshit Halloween does, practiced by people who had no awareness of that. What bothered Rant was the fake, bullshit nature of everything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk (author)
The truth of the matter is that I had been knocked so a-cock by the notion that I didn't really care tuppence for Corinna that I wasn't quite certain at the time of my own complete sanity. It comes as the devil of a shock, you see, to realise you've let a milk-and-water miss with a pretty face charm you out of your senses, and that you've been building your life for two years around a girl who never existed except in your own imagination
~ Clare Darcy
Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope … the dream that is doomed long before it's broken, that's the worst of all.
~ Clifford D. Simak
And to think, she'd once had the hots for him, back in the old days (six months ago) when razor-thin men with noses like Durante and an encyclopaedic knowledge of de Niro movies had really been her style. Now she saw him for what he was, flotsam from a lost ship of hope. Still a pill-freak, still a theoretical bisexual, still devoted to early Polanski movies and symbolic pacifism.
~ Clive Barker