Quotes About Disillusionment

Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

I don't do anything. My life sucks.

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

I think, for myself, life lied to me.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

If there's one thing I really distinguish in myself, it's my unlimited ability for getting tired of everything.

I've been a little sad that so many girls love Tommy so much. Hello!?! Tommy Hazard and Prince Charming - neither one exists!

In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

Life had proved a blind alley, with a muck heap at the end of it, and he must cut back and start again.

I used to be so dreamy about a man's love as a girl, and think that, for good or evil, love must be the great thing. But it hasn't been; it has been itself a dream.

She was so quick, so clear-headed, so imaginative even. But all the same, she had forgotten what people were like. Finding life dull, she had dropped lies into it, as a chemist drops a new element into a solution, hoping that life would thereby sparkle or turn some beautiful colour.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

What do you do when you have lost faith in the place you call home? That wasn't quite the right way to put it: I never really had faith in the United States in the strongest sense of the word.

Trabajaba en un Juzgado que había sabido funcionar bien, pero que ahora estaba en manos de un boludo. Y un boludo de la peor especie: un boludo con ansias de rápidos ascensos.

All gold is fool's gold.

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

I must go walk so the wood so wild,And wander here and thereIn dread and deadly fear;For where I trusted I am beguiled,And all for one.