Quotes About Disillusionment

Prayer never works. Expect no miracles, Father. The dead stay dead, and the living only wait

If you could do such a thing as that-and I don't mean lying with a woman, I mean doing it and lying to me about it-then everything I've done and everything I've been-my whole life-has been a lie. And I am not prepared to admit such a thing.

If Jamie could take Lord John Grey as a lover, and hide it from me, he wasn't remotely the man I thought he was. There had to be some other explanation.

Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.

I was one of the worst attorneys. I didn't enjoy law.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

Naahhh... I don't like KRS no more 'cause he just think he's too dope.

I feel like Dr. Death.

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

At the start, when I got to nearly 12 years old, I actually nearly gave up football. I wasn't enjoying it.

I thought the whole thing was you fall in love with somebody, and it's so wonderful, and it's so euphoric, and it's going to be that way forever. Nobody told me that two years after you fall in love, you're going to come down off the euphoria.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

I couldn't ever be more than that in Lansing. Can't ever be more anyplace, it turns out, as long as I wear this brown skin. I used to think things were different, because Papa used to tell me stories about all the great things I could be and could do. But now I understand. Now I know they were just stories. Just ideas in his head.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.

Alexander: Ingen jävel har en tanke i huvet. Oscar: Du måste vare rädd om mänskor, Alexander. Alexander: Idiotar. Nästsn allihop. Oscar: Så småningom kommer du att förstå - Alexander: Jag tror inte på det där snacket. "Så småningom kommer du att förstå." Vilket förbannat så småningom? Jag ser klart. Mänskor är löjliga och jag tyckar illa om dem.

Alexander: Ingen jävel har en tanke i huvet. Oscar: Du måste vare rädd om mänskor, Alexander. Alexander: Idiotar. Nästan allihop. Oscar: Så småningom kommer du att förstå - Alexander: Jag tror inte på det där snacket. "Så småningom kommer du att förstå." Vilket förbannat så småningom? Jag ser klart. Mänskor är löjliga och jag tyckar illa om dem.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

The Bible told me to be a, "fisher of men". I'm trying, but it gets so exhausting to have to reel them in just to throw them back once you realize it's just another crappie.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Life is rubbish," he muttered. "The world's a bordello. People are swindlers…