Quotes About Disillusionment

It is hard for a person of no faith like myself to comprehend the moment when faith dies in the human heart. The kneeling believer who suddenly understands that there is no reason to pray because nobody's listening.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all these illusions destroyed.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

I believe in tragedy," Shelby responds coldly. "Not miracles.

Believers with nothing to believe in.

I heard a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules.

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

Later, she would question what life might have been like with someone who saw her as more than a gleaming trophy—a prize who began to lose her luster the moment she was won.

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

I find hope is best abandoned early,' muttered Temple.

Helping people was always a mistake... Trust was a word for fools. It was a word people used when they meant to betray you.

Why don't you got a man, Shy?' 'Don't like men much, I guess.' 'You don't like anyone much.' 'They started it.' 'All of 'em?' 'Enough of 'em.

Perhaps that was the moment you grew up, when you learned your parents were just as fallible as everyone else.

Friends? In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.

Because he'd been hoping... perhaps he still was. But hoping had made a fool of him. And Shivers was good and sick of looking the fool.

It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort. All the things that Jezal had thought he wanted—power, fame, the beautiful trappings of greatness—they were nothing but dust. All he wanted now was for things to be as they had been, before he got them. But there was no way back. Not ever.

If anyone had asked him, Clover would've said there was less than no chance this'd be settled with talk. But you never realise how much hope you're holding till it gets knifed and thrown off a roof.

It was bad enough that she had been so utterly convinced he had a brilliant mind, but much worse to discover he was convinced of it, too, and on such thin evidence. It

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

Better than Hope," said Trace. "What the fuck is Hope? Hope for what? An icecream? A quick death?" Bemusement on the faces of several marines. "Uh, isn't that kind of the point?" Arime asked. "That Hope can mean anything you want it to?" "It means nothing," Trace said flatly. "I'm sick of happy bullshit that means nothing. Vacuous words for vacuous minds.