Quotes About Disillusionment

nothing on earth is lovable or trustworthy.

I looked her up and down. She wouldn't meet my eyes. I didn't recognize her anymore. She was nothing like the image of her I had in my head. Her features meant nothing to me; she was someone else.

They had the shattered look of people given what they'd wished for.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition

I'd always been under the impression that we were together because we wanted to be together, and because we were happy most of the time. I'd thought that we loved each other. I'd thought … clearly I was mistaken, but I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together.' Connie turned to me, her head on the pillow, and said, 'Douglas, why would anyone in their right mind look forward to that?

Now before you all go off for your lovely hot baths, before you all piss off in your lovely new suits and your lovely flash card to your lovely new houses and your lovely young wives, you can all get down on your bloody hands and knees and look for my fucking watch!

Otherwise, everything I'd ever felt about this great country was a crock of shit.

My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

Falconer walked up and said, "I just want to say right now that this is the stupidest shit I've ever been involved in.

The idea of freedom is a piece of dry bread thrown to people so that they can break their teeth with it.

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you have been betrayed.

Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all

After that, we weren't the same anymore. We'd become men. Disillusioned and cynical. Slightly bitter too. We had nothing. We hadn't even learned a trade. No future. Nothing but life. But life without a future is worse than no life at all.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

Nobody, it seemed, was making the money he'd thought he would make, inhabiting the home he'd thought he would inhabit, doing the thing he'd thought he would do in life. Nobody was fulfilling the dreams harbored on graduation day almost ten years earlier.

Being able to separate fantasy from reality was a real bummer. I

He didn't seem like somebody you'd want to invite to a party unless you'd already given up on it.

Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.