Quotes About Disillusionment

I thought Keith Raniere was the greatest, wisest, most brilliant man on Earth. I had no idea what was going on with the women and everything that came out in the FBI's investigation.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.

I grew up in the '70s and in Los Angeles during the new blockbuster era. 'Star Wars' was the first film that I saw in the movie theater. I wanted to be an actor; then it turned out to be this 'Wizard of Oz' story: I was 10 or 11 years old, and it turned into something that I didn't think it was.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

Jed thought he understood. It was like when his radios were thrown away. You could shrug your shoulders, put on a face that said you didn't care, but you did and nothing could ever be secure again. The next time security appeared as a possibility, you smashed it yourself. And went on smashing it. That, he was sure, was how Creed felt.

Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT.

You couldn't love someone the way he had loved her and then be turned off them in five minutes by nothing more than lies and daydreams. Could you? Could you?

People were, as he had long suspected, uniformly vile and rotten, vastly inferior to things. Objects never let you down.

A tökéletességre törekvés kimerít, és nem változtat semmin. A tökéletesség eszmény. Márpedig minden eszmény elérhetetlen, sohasem valósulhat meg, mert akkor nem lenne többé eszmény. Az eszmény és a valóság között áthidalhatatlan, örök szakadék tátong. (A gróf)

Look this is hardly fair. You sold me impure petrol at black-market price and not even one shop could be put to the torch.

Hayatta yaln?z kalman?n esas oldu?unu hâlâ kabul edemiyor musunuz? Bütün yak?nla?malar, bütün birle?meler yalanc?d?r. ?nsanlar ancak muayyen bir hadde kadar birbirlerine sokulabilirler, üst taraf?n? uydururlar; ve günün birinde hatalar?n? anlay?nca, yeislerinden her ?eyi b?rak?p kaçarlar. Halbuki mümkün olanla kanaat etseler, hayallerindekini hakikat zannetmekten vazgeçseler bu böyle olmaz.

Dünyada bir tek insana inanm??t?m. O kadar çok inanm??t?m ki, bunda aldanm?? olmak bende art?k inanmak kuvveti b?rakmam??t?.

Bütün yak?nla?malar,bütün birle?meler yalanc?d?r.?nsanlar ancak muayyen bir hadde kadar birbirlerine sokulabilirler,üst taraf?n? uydururlar; ve günün birinde hatalar?n? anlay?nca,yeislerinden her ?eyi b?rak?p kaçarlar.

?nsanlara olduklar?ndan ba?ka gözlerle bakmakta ?srar edi?ime içerliyordum. Yirmi dört ya??na geldi?im halde hala çocuklu?umun safl???ndan kurtulamam??t?m. Basit, hatta belki de hiç güzel olmayan bir resim bende ne müfrit hat?ralar b?rakm??, ne geni? ümitler do?urmu?tu. O soluk insan yüzüne kitaplar dolduracak kadar anlamlar vermi?, onda, hakikatte asla mevcut olmayan vas?flar bulmu?tum.

Any time you throw your weight behind a political party that controls two thirds of the government and that party can't keep the promise that it made to you during election time and you're dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, you're not only a chump but you're a traitor to your race.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.