Quotes About Disillusionment

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I was just a fool.

Sometimes there isn't a good guy or a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

If I'd ever seen what love really could do, or was, maybe I'd have believed in it from the start. But too much of my life had been spent watching marriages come together and then fall apart. So I understood, yes. But sometimes, like lately, I wished that I didn't, not at all.    

Oh, where is it, where did my past go, when I was young, happy and intelligent, when my dreams and thoughts had some grace, and the present and future were lit up with hope? Why is it, that when we've just started to live, we grow dull, gray, uninteresting, lazy, useless, with flattened-out souls?

I have to stop being young. I have to get jaded. I have to be cynical. I have to stop speaking. I have to be invisible. He likes things that don't really exist.

it greatly bothered him that I had such a flunky job, washing cages and sweeping up dogs' hair; and also that I was no longer a college man but trying to keep up on Helmholtz who was a dead number to him; in other words, that I should be of the unformed darkened-out mass. It was often that way with me, that people would feel the world owed me distinctness.

A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution

Entrando nella vita ci si lusinga, ma la vita non ci lusinga.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

The world is gradually becoming a placewhere I do not care to be any more.

Damn right I voted for him. But if I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote—I'd have cast a brick.

misanthropy.

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.

All, all of a piece throughout:Thy chase had a beast in view;Thy wars brought nothing about;Thy lovers were all untrue.'Tis well an old age is out,And time to begin a new.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?