Quotes About Disillusionment

Once more she had that really rather disgusting suspicion that her life till now had not only been loud but empty.

Everything seems so small here now, old, mashed-in, more rundown even than I remember it, but with a heartbreaking familiarity at each door that makes me wonder if I can take in anything new, so strongly do I feel in Brownsville that I am walking in my sleep.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

Best on the whole not to watch it at all : love is best felt : the acts of love are hard and disillusioning to view like this unless done by the greatest master picturemakers : otherwise the seeing of them being done and enjoyed by figurations of other people will always lock you outside them (unless your pleasure comes from taking solo pleasure or pleasure at one remove, in which case, yes, that's your pleasure).

I'm tired of the news. I'm tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren't, and deals so simplistically with what's truly appalling.

I'm tired of the news...I'm tired of anger. I'm tired of the meanness. I'm tired of selfishness...I'm tired of lying governments. I'm tired of people not caring whether they're being lied to anymore. I'm tired of being made to feel this fearful.

No longer the dream we were invited to long ago

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

Trust was now a four-letter word.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

I've trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.

That was what university was: thinking you were going to open yourself up to a universe, and meeting nobody.

Elle se transforma en une créature désenchantée dont l'obsession fut de ne pas sombrer dans le gouffre que cette situation avait creusé en elle.

C'è gente abbastanza sfortunata da trovare l'amore della sua vita, lo scrittore della sua vita, il filosofo della sua vita, ecc. E ovvio che diventeranno dei rincoglioniti.

What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful.

I was married once. When the tinsel from Tum Bin' was wearing off, so was the happiness from my first marriage. Ever since, I've been wary of marrying again.

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

Fans recognize me all over the place. But the second you need anything, they're never around! They're like the police!

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

There are people of all colors and creeds across our state who've lost faith in our political system.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.