Quotes About Disillusionment

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization." "What?" "It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added, in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress.

He who has lived and thought can't help despising people in his soul; him who has felt disturbs the ghost of irrecoverable days; for him there are no more enchantments; him does the snake of memories, him does repentance bite.

El alma del que ha vivido y ha pensado no puede por menos que despreciar a la gente. A aquel que es sensible le atormenta la visión de los días irrevocables; ya no conoce el placer; la víbora del recuerdo y el arrepentimiento le consume.

Pooh! Women say those things, but never do them.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

showered, hating the sound of the rushing water; shaved, hating the buzz of the razor. He dressed quickly, not caring what he put on. He had no plan, only to get out of this room, to get away from the unremembered shape of his dreams.

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After.

Douglas Coupland

All around us we have the wreckage – metaphorical and real – of all our dreams, our religions, our political ideologies and a thousand other aspirations, all of which in their turn have proved false. And though we have no more illusions or ambitions left, yet we are still here. So what do we do?

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

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.