Quotes About Disillusionment

The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.

People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.

It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.

That disillusionment, moreover, like all other vogues, having had its beginning in the higher strata of society, had descended to the lower, where it was being worn threadbare, and that, now, those who were really and truly bored strove to conceal their misfortune as if it were a vice.

Because you can't keep up the illusion forever, I say. No one has that much magic.

That's it," Mabel said, getting up. She tossed her napkin on the table. "No. That is not right. I don't know what you just said, but whatever it was, I'm pretty certain it was pure hokum. I don't want to dance. I don't want to hear about your plans for a summer house. I am not your sister. And if I were your sister, I'd have to tell people you'd been adopted as an act of charity. Please, don't get up.

I have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested.

Idealism is just an escape from reality. There is no utopia.

When did you become a cynic?" Sam asked. Evie smiled. "When I found out I was a little girl.

The world is full of dead optimists.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you? asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. I ate civilization.

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche.

All men are born with an equal and inalienable right to disillusionment. So, until they choose to waive that right, it's three cheers for Technological Progress and a College Education for everybody.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.