Quotes About Disillusionment

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson

He wished he knew what to say to make her feel better, but the truth was, he didn't feel all that great himself and he didn't know if there were even any words in the English language to take away this kind of stunning shock, this understanding that the world isn't the place you thought it was.

As a kid, his favorite toy had been a snow globe, that held a small town of gingerbread buildings and peppermint streets. He'd wanted so badly to live there that one day he'd smashed the glass ball - only to find out that the houses were made of plaster, the candy stripes painted on.

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man.

It would be far worse to think you were passionately wanted and loved and find out that you never were

I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.

Your friendliness with people does not make them your friends.

There was a time when I quite liked what I saw in the looking-glass, but not anymore. Now I'm startled, and more than startled, by the visage that so abruptly appears there, never at all the one that I expect. I have been elbowed aside by a parody of myself, a sadly dishevelled figure in a Halloween mask made of sagging, pinkish- grey rubber that bears no more than a passing resemblance to the image of what I look like that I stubbornly retain in my head.

THE DREAM BECOMES A NIGHTMARE

If there's one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

Las personas se están preparando para el éxito cuando deberían estarse preparando para el fracaso. Fracasar es mucho más común que triunfar; la pobreza está más generalizada que la riqueza; y la desilusión es más normal que los logros.

isn't it true that when some couple celebrates their tenth or fifteenth anniversary they seem far from triumphant? In fact they seem duped while dirty Uncle Harry, the rake, seems to wear the laurels.

Oh, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care! I don't care what happens, as long as everything doesn't go on repeating itself!

Once you fu.. me over, I'm done with you. I'll never view you the same.

I don't wanna to play this game anymore.

The guy I thought was right, turned out to be wrong. He decided in his heart, I did not belong. I thought homeless was bad enough. But heartless thats ruination.

That feeling you get when you suddenly realize that you were fighting for nothing all along.

Sometimes the one you put on a pedestal is the one who deserves the least amount of your time and respect.

Nobody in their right mind would have left him but she knew he wasnt as great as everyone saw. He hurt her and now she has to live with the pain.

I hate your lies and I'm so over your truths.

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

Dream another dream, its all the same. You dream and dream, and nothings going to change. And sadly that's all I have left are the dreams.