Quotes About Disillusionment

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

Politics makes me sick.

You don't want to hear what I have to say. You only want me to say what you want to hear. But trust me when I tell you that you won't ever get all you want. You'll just grow frustrated and bitter, and you'll end up doing things that will kill the best part of you.

He rages because the people don't deserve their country and proved it by electing a racist orange glob of hair coughed up by the Russian cat.

Who are the bitterest people in the world? The failed idealists, I would think.

This is where the disillusioned gathered to look for new illusions

Love had turned out the most painful of all his disillusionments. Further, the misfortunes of his wedded life had intensified that morbid self-protectiveness, that propensity at all costs to avoid trouble, which was a major defect of his character.

though her gaze kept tracking nervously to the blue sky framed by the dome, expecting any minute steeply banking wings there, fire or smoke. How could people turn on happiness like a tap, and pretend the world was a bright and shiny place when they knew it wasn't at all?

I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.

yet in a Short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it

Un tempo piangevo moltissimo ed ero pieno di speranze. Oggi rido parecchio, un riso disilluso.

There comes a point in every man's life when he sees that the magician's hat is empty, that the government and the church are run by fools, and that virtue is far rarer than he'd been led to believe.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

felt this way, robbed

over-inflated expectations

Where do you come from?" "From the planet of a distant sun, called Earth." "What for?" "I was tired of vulgarity.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

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

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.