Quotes About Disillusionment

Among the things I know is that Trump voters were played for suckers.

It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.

After Euro 2008, football in England was shattered for a bit, and people were losing interest in following England.

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. (…) I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale.

McCandless conveniently overlooked the fact that London himself had spent just a single winter in the North and that he'd died by his own hand on his California estate at the age of forty, a fatuous drunk, obese and pathetic, maintaining a sedentary existence that bore scant resemblance to the ideals he espoused in print.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

Billy might have known it for several months by now, and I might only just have begun to grasp it, but we had both come to the same realization: the realization that what we had to give, nobody really wanted any more

And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it.

He'd come to Los Angeles to break into the movies as a writer. His soul was still alive then, but he'd met a girl who had dreams of her own, and one thing led to another, and now he was just another member of the goddamned middle class, suckering people for living.

You wouldn't believe how quickly the most interesting person in the world can turn into the most boring person you'll ever meet.

I hate America," she said. "I thought Obama would change things, but it's still just guns, drones, Guant

He saw what they either couldn't see or couldn't allow themselves to see, and that only made him more pissed, because being less stupid than one's parents is repulsive, like taking a gulp from a glass of milk that you thought was orange juice.

Brod's life was a slow realisation that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.

In comparison with all this, our little stories of achievement seem pitiful; Too well we know what bitterness of failure, loss, disillusionment, and ironic unfulfillment galls the blood of even the envied of the world!

She drew others to her like acolytes only for them to discover she wasn't recruiting.

The tide had turned, and the worst possible thing had happened: my heroes had become the "bad guys," and one didn't dare say otherwise.