Quotes About Disillusionment

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion

Wie falsch und trügerisch die Welt ist! Zuerst lockt sie bunt und glitzert vor Schönheit, dann tut Mama den Mund auf, und alles verwandelt sich in Bazillen und Gelatine.

Papa-Lo start thinking too deep and start thinking that he should be more than what he is. He's the worst kind of fool, the fool who start believing things can get better.

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

I am tired of the whole concept of humans right now.

when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.

He had no intention of fighting for a country that he saw as holding men down and offering them nothing except back-breaking work. He had said as much to his commanding officer. He had also robbed the army stores blind; the black market was still thriving at the time, and he had used that for his own ends.

for the words had dampened his ardour irretrievably. It was just like being asked to drink nectar from a piss-pot. She

Love has nothing to do with it. It's commitment and toughness when your world shatters around you. It's losing babies and jobs and hope. It's sickness and pain, and disillusionment and broken dreams.

I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.

For as long as she could remember, Frances's parents has told her stories about England. But when she got there, the real England wasn't like the stories at all.

I can only offer this advice: if you expect sunny paths all the time and no storms you will know disillusionment, but if you are prepared for rough paths and storms you will cope and will know the pleasure of achievement

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

School is a joke. But go along with it, because you are very near to the punchline.

sighed in resignation, having long since given up on today's youth and their utter historical illiteracy, a product of their deliberate educational brainwashing.

I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.