Quotes About Disillusionment

I finished my 20s with a PhD in fusion energy, and I discovered I was useless.

In a minor way it was, he suspected, like Machu Picchu, or the Great Pyramid—a place you always forgot you'd never have to yourself. People imagined visiting them alone, climbing the steps in quiet contemplation of the past. They forgot about the stalls selling T-shirts and kebabs, forgot the tour buses of sunburned Americans, forgot velvet ropes and security guards.

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.

Als leven een baan is, wilde ik ontslag nemen. Maar ik kon het kantoor niet vinden dat over ontslagaanvragen ging.

Sommige mensen wachten hun hele leven op applaus van de wereld en pas vlak voor hun dood komen ze tot de ontdekking dat ze voor een lege zaal hebben staan spelen.

The usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

Many people go into relationships because they fall in love with the essence of a person, only to find out that the person's narcissistic wounded self is in charge most of the time.

She had been swimming in a big pink aquarium, and she never thought that somebody would come along with a hammer and break it until she was gasping for her life and everything she had taken for granted, for permanent, was gone.

The world's ending, yeah. It's begun to bore her ...

Azért még él a szívemben valami reménység. De ha ez is csak áltatásnak bizonyulna, pusztuljon ki még a gyökere is, és pusztuljak el vele együtt én is.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

One has to consider what effect it would have on one to have to accept the fact that God was not the friendly guardian of kindergarten!

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

Being loyal to the wrong person can leave you wanting to be disloyal to all.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

Being faithful gets you nowhere...I thought that's what everybody wanted...loyalty and faithfulness...ha guess I was wrong.

I may be too young to lose hope in love but I am also old enough not to believe in promises.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.