Quotes About Disillusionment

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

I hated school right away. Religion had a lot to do with it because I felt like everybody was always lying to me.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity.

I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

Our life, we realize, is not as happy as we have been taught to think.

Puesto que la vida es un extravio, se diría que el más sensato de los desengaños consiste en elaborar un extravio artificial, ordenado y lógico, en el mismo interior de ese extravio enmarañado e incontrolable.

The year 2016—marked by the Brexit vote in Britain and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States—signified the moment when this tidal wave of disillusionment reached the core liberal states of Western Europe and North America.

The god Seth awakens through harsh disillusionment or scorn or through the shattering of everything that you thought was real being torn from you.

what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.

It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one awful truth.

Como nos recuerda Savater, la democracia no es un régimen para estar quieto. Y la nuestra se encuentra tan descompuesta que urge estar atentos, vigilantes, prestos para intervenir y corregir y echar del puesto a quien te ha desilusionado

Josephine wasn't much for praying . It had never done her any good.

I don't trust what this life has given me.

What intrigues you about me in the beginning is what you'll hate about me in the end.

We don't get worked up simply because someone lied to us, but mainly because we can no longer trust that person or anyone else after the bitter experience. It's the matter of a betrayal of trust and a violation of innocence that's absolutely irreparable.

Its roof sagged and let in water when it rained, its walls groaned and let in wind when it blew, and its doors creaked and let in hypocrites when it suited.

Exactly," said Saracen. "Everyone would think I decided to specialise in this because I wanted to see through people's clothes." "Why did you specialise in it?" "I wanted to see through people's clothes. I know, I know, but I was a teenager. I thought it'd be great. It's not great. Not at all.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

we woke as if from a nightmare only to find that the ugly are still not beautiful and the dull still do not sparkle.