Quotes About Disillusionment

Ralph Peters, a conservative uber-hawk and former army intelligence officer who in early 2018 resigned in disgust as a Fox commentator. In a scorching letter of resignation leaked to BuzzFeed, he wrote, "Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.

Idi od mene, odvratna nemo?i, zavaravaš me lažnim slikama rastere?enja, koje nisu ?ak ni želje.

Kad sam prošao taj mu?ni put, doznavši i ono što mi nije bilo potrebno, moja naivnost je umrla, od stida.

There ain't no coupe de Ville hidin' in the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.

This was the world they were meant to enter: a world of fuckers.

Was this the epiphany of adult life, that it actually wasn't exciting and vast in possibilities, but was in fact as enclosed and proscribed as childhood?

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

There are no white knights, Soph. Not like in your stories. You have to see people for what they are, not what you want them to be.

How do you react to something like that? How? How do you react when you find out the exact opposite of what you've been telling yourself is true?

The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.

I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

Worse still, he doesn't know how to follow the piper anymore because it's a path Tom has lost faith in. And the piper knows it. Tom can see it in his father's eyes now. And the more he stares, the clearer it becomes.

Before colonels commanded or astronauts flew, they were nearly forty! They told you all these things you could be, but the truth of it was that when you wanted it you couldn't have it, and when you got it, you were old and boring like everybody else. It quenched ambition

What's astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.

Não é que eu não tenha fé na humanidade. Deixei foi de acreditar nos homens.

The other is the despair that arises when people believe the meritocratic promise has already been fulfilled, and they have lost out.

There is a moment when all hope disappears, all pride is gone, all expectations, all faith, all desire.

Cynicism is romanticism turned sour.

From the vantage point of the present, the prize promised by the idea of progress can look less like an achievement than an affront.

Trump, as almost anyone who had ever worked for him appreciated, was, despite what you hoped he might be, Trump—and he would invariably sour on everyone around him.

Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing.

I just wish," she said, "that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck.

Some people live to be seventy, sometimes eighty years old believing there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason.

the word humanism made me want to vomit