Quotes About Disillusionment

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

A political convention is just not a place from which you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

and often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

No matter what you do for them, eventually, they will hate you.?

They weren't quite in their teens, yet their faces had the early trappings of apathy.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

car l'éclat de quelques heures de bonheur suffit parfois à rendre tolérables des disillusions et des saloperies que la vie ne manque pas de nous envoyer

Anson looked searchingly at her. His eyes moved over her body. He thought: you meet a woman and she starts a chemical reaction in you. You think there is no one like her in the world, then something happens, and it is finished. She means less to me now than the used plate after a good meal, and how little can that be?

Cigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had.

and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had.

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have their head examined. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.

All seemed weary of life even before entering upon it.

He found trivial all that was meant to charm him and did not answer the glances which invited him to be bold.

She left, feeling sullen over her wasted afternoon and wasted bus fare. It was her first experience with the sexological advertiser, though she was to find out he was fairly common. Usually he was some phony calling himself a writer, an agent, or a talent scout, who had found out that for a dollar and a half's worth of newspaper space he could have a daylong procession of girls at his door, all desperate for work, all willing to do almost anything to get it.

Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.

No lo entiendes, Alex? No, creo que no lo entiendes. —¿Qué es lo que no entiendo, Jezzie? Dímelo de una vez. —Siempre estás buscando la parte buena de la gente. Pero no existe.

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.

It's no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.