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Quotes About Disillusionment

The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Before it happened to me, I'd look at other people who had become really successful and think, 'What a dream. That must be absolutely everything they ever wanted.' When it does happen to you, you realize yes, it's incredible. But it also comes with a bit of a weird aftertaste.
~ Passenger
When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
~ Rachel Ward
I have no faith in the justice system so I don't let anything affect me.
~ Danny Rose
I did not enjoy David Moyes' training sessions. Eventually I lost my love for the game and went into the dressing-room feeling annoyed every day.
~ Patrick van Aanholt
People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
~ Alexei Navalny
I really don't feel like playing anymore.
~ Tiger Woods
If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.
~ Joyce DeWitt
Ha a n?k elmésnek, tehetségesnek találják, a férfiak el fogják hinni, hogy az, hacsak maga ki nem ábrándítja ?ket. Akkor aztán mindent akarhat, mindenütt megvetheti a lábát. Akkor majd megtudja, hogy a világ nem egyéb, mint megcsaltak és csalók közössége.
~ Honore de Balzac
Aunque el vulgo no admite cambios bruscos en los sentimientos, no es menos cierto que dos amantes se separan a menudo más rápidamente de lo que tardan en unirse. Iba incubándose en madame de Bargeton y en Lucien un desencanto sobre ellos mismos cuya causa no era otra que París.
~ Honore de Balzac
Once, she'd dreamed about being taken care of by this man. But this care didn't have the sugared taste she'd imagined.
~ Unknown
I see no room in this city for the gentle ways of love, for precious walks in shady alleys, the full moon sparkling on the water, while the suppliant pleads in vain. Rich, young, and beautiful, I have only to love, and love would become my sole occupation, my life; yet in the three months during which I have come and gone, eager and curious, nothing has appealed to me in the bright, covetous, keen eyes around me. No voice has thrilled me, no glance has made the world seem brighter.
~ Honore de Balzac
That's why you can't be worried about the world. They'll just do you in anyway. You can't depend on them because sooner or later they'll turn on you or just disappear and leave you there alone.
~ Unknown
thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.
~ Unknown
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt
~ Hunter S. Thompson
250,000 men and women who worked in the mills are history. Some died, some became disillusioned, others simply lost their minds. Many committed suicide, some just melted into the background, some retreated to their native villages – while others ended up hawking vegetables beneath the very structures that gave them their bread and butter.
~ Unknown
Man after the second half of the twentieth century is frustrated. You know that the foundation of all subversiveness is laid on frustration and this frustration keeps finding ways to subversive activities. And you also know that an uncert...ain present has made man pessimistic about future... therefore he runs after anything that glitters, be it fire
~ Unknown
Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee ' you know, a hit show or whatever.
~ Idina Menzel
En manos de los políticos, todo proyecto acaba en una antigua forma de infelicidad, ya no merecen nuestra entrega ni nuestra obligación.
~ Unknown
fucking flattery, success, money. I just sit back and suck my thumb.
~ Ikkyu
Je me suis trompé jusqu'ici; en voilà un qui est plus méchant. »
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.
~ Concha Buika
You used to be such a sweet creature. So trusting." He tched gently. "Whatever happened to you?" "You.
~ Connie Brockway
We don't marry women, he thought; we marry angels, and in this moment or two of the marriage act, the scales fall from our eyes and we see them as they really are, perhaps never to glimpse it again. How lovely she is, how unearthly lovely.
~ Cornell Woolrich