Quotes About Disillusionment

Well, kid, I have seen the future and it shits.

Spiritual urban legends aren't just harmless misunderstandings. They're spiritually dangerous errors that will eventually bring heartache and disillusionment to all who trust in them.

You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away.

She'd been played all along. Once again, the dumb blonde. "Marco

When it came down to it, Sandy didn't have much use for words because so many of the ones he had heard over his life had been lies.

I can see how James or Greene might agree with this point of view: the former finds that the ugly old lamp no longer produces a genie when rubbed and the latter realizes he has nothing left to wish for.

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.

Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one. - Courtney

The first day of school is bullshit

The firs day of high school is bullshit anyways. It's supposed to be about new beginnings, but really all it does is wreck your life. And set you up for failure. And make you realize everything is completely and totally fucked.

As I listened to the lyrics – truly listened, instead of just letting them float over me – the almost-pleasant feelings went away. I'd always thought this was an inspirational song about God or something, because of all the hallelujahs. Only it turned out there were words before and after the hallelujahs, and those words were hardly uplifting.

Sometimes I think I was better off not knowing any men. I truly had no idea they could be so very stupid." She sighed. "It's quite disappointing, really.

He felt as if he'd dived into a deep, clear lake and discovered it was a shallow, knee-deep pond. What did you do? Well, you stood up. You rinsed your mud-caked knees and pulled your feet out of the muck. And you were more cautious after that. You knew, from then on, that the world was a smaller place than you'd expected.

Tinha a sensação de ter mergulhado em um lago fundo e transparente, e então de ter descoberto que na verdade era uma lagoa rasa, que batia no seu joelho. O que podia fazer? Bem, tinha que se levantar, limpar os joelhos sujos, tirar os pés da lama. E tomar mais cuidado. Ele saberia, dali em diante, que o mundo era um lugar menor do que imaginara.

Tecrübe... Neye yarar tecrübe? ?nsanlardan i?renmeye, hayata küsmeye yarar. Eksik olsun.

Not that, this." She took her hands off the wheel and stretched out her arms, the car inching closer to oncoming traffic. "This town, these people, the same old shit every week. I'm done with it. All of it.

I have lost all faith in the steadfastness of human resolves.

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

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

I was a dreamer by nature. I was a drunkard as a result of castrated dreams.

Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People

Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.

Ainda sinto um certo afeto pela estrada (embora ela, hoje, não seja tão agradável quanto o era na ocasião), formado pelas impressões de uma juventude cheia de esperanças e que não conhecia ainda as desilusões

The procrastination, the laziness, the halfhearted attempts, the going through the motions—all indicate that the old story isn't motivating you anymore. What once made sense, makes sense no longer. You are beginning to withdraw from that world. Society does its best to persuade you to resist that withdrawal, which, when resisted, is called depression.