Quotes About Disillusionment

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

It is easy to become disillusioned with the circumstances of our lives compared to others'. But in the presence of God, He gives us a deeper peace and joy that transcends it all.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.