Quotes About Disillusionment

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

I am ashamed and deeply distressed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles.

I believe in American political principles, and I will not sit idly by and see those principles destroyed by sorry practice. I am ashamed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles.

We haven't accepted—we can't really believe—that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so.

They were built up to great expectations, and when these could not be met, they turned against those who made the promises.

I have degraded myself by ever thinking of him as my husband.

Suddenly it didn't look like the home I loved. It looked like an enemy.

To hell with everything I myself have ever written.

I kept thinking that. I don't know why it is I can't seem to learn that a woman'll do anything.

I don't like the climate, the people, their way of life. Nothing ever happens and then one morning you wake up and find that you are 65.

Fuck it. Just fuck it.

I'm a dead cookie.

Over a nightdress she wears a lumpy kimono. Her eyes are dim with a morning expression of disillusionment, as though she had had a beautiful dream during the night and found on waking none of it was true. On her feet are worn dirty comfies)

What was bright and exciting becomes weary, flat, and unprofitable.

The university students in Germany, as we have seen, had been among the most fanatical of Nazis in the early Thirties. But ten years of Hitler's rule had brought disillusionment, and this was sharpened by the failure of Germany to win the war and particularly, as 1943 came, by the disaster at Stalingrad.

Just once," he said with abrupt savagery, "in a goddamn while, it would really be a pleasure if the goddamn world worked the way it's supposed to. I am tired of the universe being such a bloody aleatory frenzy all, the bloody, time.

This gentleman is cactus," said Doul.

I hate malls. They're like strip clubs for women. All tease and sparkle and the empty promise that if you just drop enough cash, somehow you'll be fulfilled.

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The whole world like a wall facing me. I fumble over the stones: no gaps. Why should I go on deluding myself: there's no gap for me to live in. It's my own fault. It's me, I'm simply not determined enough. Yet how simple and natural everything seemed when I first read about it in books.

I know all too well how it is when the beautiful visions you've been fed don't match up with reality.

a time when the plans and ideals that you've been dreaming of for years come up against reality. you graduate from college and have to find your way in the real world. you learn that there is no perfect job. there is no perfect relationship.

The anarchist movement is filled with people who are less interested in overthrowing the existing oppressive social order than with washing their hands of it.

Life, my dear, is not about romance. The sooner you learn that, the less of a disappointment yours will prove to be.