Quotes About Disillusionment

We're in the wrong universe for fair.

Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head.

They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it.

They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.

Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! And

Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

There are a group of people that wake up everyday and go to work to learn nothing, get nowhere and wonder when and how things will ever change.

So fed up with people that you do anything and everything for but when the time comes for them to help you, they suddenly can't even do the slightest thing!!

No, I'm not a bi.... I just don't care anymore. I'm sick of taking down my walls for people that want to hurt me. I'm sick of caring about people who don't even know I exist. I've been hurt so many times that I don't want it to happen anymore. So maybe I'm a bit bitter, but I'm not a bi.... Just hurt.

I don't put my faith or trust in anyone anymore. After a while you just get tired of being disappointed constantly.

Its hard when you realize that the person you actually trusted, was also the person lying to you the whole time.

If I had been able to get out and speak to one of these girls we passed, I might well have been disillusioned by some flaw in her complexion that I had been unaware of from the carriage. (In that case, it would suddenly have felt impossible for me to make any effort to become part of her life. For beauty is a succession of hypotheses, and ugliness restricts these by blocking the way that seemed to be already leading us into the heart of the unknown.)

but other people, as we get to know them, are like a metal dipped in an acid bath, and we see them gradually lose their good qualities (and their bad qualities too, at times).

En otro tiempo creí que la abeja era un beso con alas. Acabo de mojar mi dedo en un panal, y todo el perfume de la miel nueva se evaporó. Ha cesado de agradarme la miel.

Every morning you slunk out of our house after breakfast, leaving behind the books and the smell of coffee....and like a spy going deep undercover into enemy territory, you entered a world that was a terrible inversion of everything I had taught you to value: a world shaped by toughness, boastful ignorance, firm gender stereotypes, underachievement, and the threat of violence.

I shook my head.