Quotes About Disillusionment

Ci si rifugia nella mediocrità quando non si spera più nelle cose belle che si sono sognate!

I arrived thinking I had these amazing looks and body and that I would straight away land the lead in a Yash Chopra film. Those fancy ideas got quashed soon enough.

Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm.

I'm out of the Republican Party. I'm fed up.

This world is always fed up with politicians.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

I never wanted to be a fighter in the first place.

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn't. I shoveled a lot of stalls.

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.

I was one of those kids who looks really good on paper, I tested very well, I went to a fancy college, won some prizes. When I came out of school, I had many horrible jobs, but I didn't know what the path was to a creative life or the life of a writer.

Most of Seakirk's inhabitants were indifferent to the spectacle of corruption in high places and low, the gambling, the gang wars, the teen-age drinking. They were used to the sight of their roads crumbling, their ancient water mains bursting, their power plants breaking down, their decrepit old buildings falling apart, while the bosses built bigger homes, longer swimming pools and warmer stables. People were used to it.

How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way.

I don't understand the age we live in, and what I understand I don't like.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

Así que todo nos traiciona, incluida la curiosidad y la honestidad y lo que bien amamos. Sí, dijo la voz, pero consuélate, en el fondo es divertido.

It's absurd to see an enchanted princess in every girl who walks by. What do you think you are, a troubadour?

When I was an adolescent I wanted to be a Jew, a Bolshevik, black, homosexual, a junkie, half-crazy, and--the crowning touch-- a one-armed amputee, but all I became was a literature professor.

Y después nos pusimos a hablar de política, que era un tema que a Cesárea le gustaba, aunque cada vez menos. Cómo si la política y ella hubieran enloquecido juntas.

Así que todo nos traiciona, incluida la curiosidad y la honestidad y lo que bien amamos. Si, dijo la voz, pero consuélate, en el fondo es divertido.