Quotes About Disillusionment

But doesn't real love work the other way round?" Kiralee asked. "You start by thinking someone's fabulous, and by the end of the piece you realize he's a monster!

Stupefied he gazed at the old man who, naïve as a child, returned his glance still rubbing his hands. How could he have recognized one who so utterly betrayed all his expectations? The man whom Valignano had called a devil, who had made the missionaries apostatize one by one--until now he had envisaged the face of this man as pale and crafty. But here before his very eyes sat this understanding, seemingly good, meek man.

And when she goes home,' Uncle Max said, 'to the place and the people she has romanticized all these months, she'll see that it isn't all she imagined. She'll be different, but they'll all expect her to be the same.

She had that look. The one that means, "I can't wait to get this over with and get you out of here and get on with my life." The look that is so hard to believe, so impossible to take in, when it comes from someone who used to love you. The look that always makes you wonder if they ever really did. It's the final look. There's no coming back from it.

Lately I feel that I'm living in a badly written, badly directed foreign movie that's running on late-night TV in black-and-white with lots of static and inadequate subtitles.

So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it's capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)

It's good to see your friends happy, isn't it? (Nick) How would I know? I have no friends. People basically suck and all friends will screw you over in the end. Take my word for it. (Savitar) Then why am I here? (Nick) Hell if I know. (Savitar)

Why are you being so cruel? (Kiara) Honestly? Because I believed your bullshit lies when you spewed them and I don't often make that mistake. I should have listened to myself and known that in the end, you're just like every other sanctimonious ass out there who dares to call us callous and unfeeling. (Syn)

You'd trust me that easily? (Shahara) Hell no. The only thing I trust in life is to get fucked over by everyone around me. (Syn)

People suck. (Nero)

What he never counted on was me and the degree to which your mother's purity would affect you. (Menyara) You're so full of shit, Menyara, you ought to be a cow pasture. (Nick)

Why did you marry him then? (Francesca) I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I thought he was a noble prince. I had no idea he was barely one step up from a monkey. I take that back and I deeply apologize to all the primates of the earth for insulting them. He's not worthy of monkeydom. He's a slimy slug trail. (Esperetta)

Damn adulthood. He wanted to send it back for a full refund.

La última vez que creí que una mujer me amaba, perdí un imperio y acabé crucificado mientras ella se reía de mí. No seas tonta, Amanda. El amor no existe. Es una ilusión. No me amas; no puedes amarme.

I hate the domestic life.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.

You know, if my life was a horse, I'd shoot it. (Susan)

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood