Quotes About Disillusionment

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Si de algo estaba seguro cuando era joven era de que nunca me aburriría. Ahora me aburro. Y eso es una especie de derrota.

Pero no, Carlos no podía mentirle, no podía haberla engañado con esos ojos tan dulces. Y si lo había hecho, mejor no saber, mejor hacerse la lesa, la más tonta de las locas, la más bruta, que solo sabía bordar y cantar canciones viejas.

She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.

I had never heard such bullshit in my life. I opened my mouth and said, "I have never heard such bullshit in my life.

Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.

All in all, he felt more milked than loved.

Singing wordlessly over the song's (and the album's) final moments, Bruce evokes the opening bars of "Something in the Night," and the chill cloaking the entire album: the creeping suspicion that the things that make you feel the most alive will turn out to be some combination of unobtainable, worthless, and self-destructive.

paper-pushers can't figure me out. all they understand is bullshit and politics, which amounts to the same thing.

I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren't cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.

Siempre he esperado con ilusión hacerme adulto, porque pensaba que el mundo adulto era... bueno... adulto, que los adultos no eran exclusivistas ni desagradables, que la idea de ir a la última o de ser sofisticado o popular dejaría de marcar la vida social, pero empezaba a darme cuenta de que el mundo de los adultos era tan absurdamente brutal y peligoros en lo social como lo era en el reino de la infancia.

There is a point when life, having showered us with jewels for nothing, begins to exact our life's blood for paste.

It's not the pain that hurts,' she said, 'it's finding out that one of your idols is a real asshole.

When Christians feel crushed by such "people of God," faith is exposed as something that just doesn't work here and now. And if something doesn't work, intellectual arguments for staying in the faith lose their appeal over time. Why bother?

He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive a cab.

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.