Quotes About Disillusionment

It was more fun dreaming about being a movie star than actually being one.

La estricta realidad me aburre, y el arte me parece hábil, pero nunca eficaz, nunca legítimo. Tan sólo un ingenuo recurso que ciertos tipos desengañados, sinvergüenzas o melancólicos usan para mentirse o, lo que es peor aún, para mentirme. Y no quiero mentirme. Quiero saber todo acerca de mi mismo.

Es sastre. Horrible. Nunca vayas a hacerte un traje con él.

creen en Dios sólo porque ignoran que hace mucho tiempo que Dios ha dejado de creer en ellos.

I wanted to have my own bookstore until I worked in one," [Edward Gorey] reflected in 1998. "Then I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.

In 1997 I said they were dicks for voting Labour – but nobody was having it at the time. Three years later people are saying – 'Oh, you were right there, Mark.' It's a waste of time, really, but I still do it. Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.

Cynicism is idealism turned inside out. It stems from an expectation unrealized and a promise perverted. That is so much of Washington today in a nutshell.

Downer: When the searing prose of the night before reads so bleakly pedestrian in the cold light of morning

Everything you do, everything you'll ever accomplish, your life's work, your kids' life's work: horseshit. (Ecclesiastes) [God Is Disappointed in You]

You want to get a good look at yourself. You stand before a mirror, you take off your jacket, unbutton your shirt, open your belt, unzip your fly. The outer clothing falls from you. You take off your shoes and socks, baring your feet. You remove your underwear. At a loss, you examine the mirror. There you are. You are not there.

Here's where my pastoral fantasy ran aground: the pound of organic butter cost six dollars and fifty cents. The ceiling for buying my way into grace was about five bucks.

in a matter of seconds, his faith in God, in life, in love, and in a better tomorrow drained away to empty.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

I love the world, just, you know...not the people in it.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

I think for a lot of young people there is a sense that maybe the future is not going to be everything it was held out to be, especially if they're coming out with a lot of student debt.

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made.