Quotes About Disillusionment

And perhaps, because I liked you." His laughter was bitter, like broken glass.

We were supposed to weather the storms together, but we couldn't…You're not who I thought you were.

Why bother trying? What was the point? So I could go to some suck-ass college, get a diploma, march out into a job that I hated, marry a pretty girl who would want to divorce me, but then she wouldn't because we'd have kids, so instead she'd be the angry woman at the other end of the kitchen table, and the kids would grow up watching this, until one day I'd look at my son and he'd look just like that face in the bathroom mirror? If that was life, then it was twisted.

Maybe that was why I wanted to slap so many of the zombies; they had no idea how freaking lucky they were. Lucky and ignorant, happy little rich kids who believed in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and thought that life was supposed to be fair.

Nothing. It all sounds stupid.

Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

Is That All There Is?

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

She wasn't wholly infatuated, though she liked the way he looked; but, so too did he and that unfatuated her a bit.

I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.

doubting their faith, and those just hanging on is that church or Christianity has failed them, wounded them, betrayed them, or maybe just bored them—and they do not want to

felt the depth of my deception. What had happened to my self-respect? My integrity?

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

The very hour of disillusionment with my brother becomes incomparably salutary, because it so thoroughly teaches me that neither of us can ever live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and Deed which really binds us together--the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ. When the morning mists of dreams vanish, then dawns the bright day of Christian fellowship.

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

I hate the past and for that matter the present

He did not want to see the war movie. It would be full of shit.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Capuchin monkeys have no faith in America; they hold to no dream

With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.