Quotes About Disillusionment

Gracias a usted ya no puedo creer en las certidumbres de los que tienen una casa, una familia, unos amigos.

And only when he'd finished and fallen silent did the vague smile return to his lips, in apparent gentle mockery of himself, of the man he had just described and for whom, deep down, he felt neither compassion nor disdain, only a kind of disillusioned, sympathetic solidarity.

se trata menos de cabalgar con amigos que de conocer cuándo dejan de serlo.

Qué chingados, ingeniero. De qué revolución me habla. Ésa se disuelve en traiciones y mentiras. Los ricos son los de antes; y los pobres, también. Se lo dice a usté uno que la hizo.

Para Falcó, palabras como patria, amor o futuro no tenían ningún sentido.

I will always love the false image I had of you.

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit." "We did say it was still only a dream." "And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.

Bullshit, as usual

In fact, one of the biggest consolations for a man doing time is knowing 90% of people in the outside world don't realize their dreams

Truth is the mother of hatred.

We're a fucked up generation

There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went 'what?' Or worse, feeling interrupted and tires, 'wha-?' It had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it.

I thought of you as a god, but now I see that you are nothing but a man with a man's weaknesses.

She was a joke, and the only man she'd ever loved now knew it.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

I started rapping when I was young, like 12, 11. But I wasn't really talking about nothing and it didn't really get me nowhere.

After 'Kelis Was Here,' I was done. I was like, 'I will never put out another record again; I hate this business; I hate all these people.' I was in this race that I didn't even realise that I was in.

The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when you're there that things are a lot narrower than you thought. It's a little bit of a let-down.

There's certain people in your life you realise aren't exactly the people that you thought they were.

We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.

It was so strange because I thought Washington was going to be so grown-up, and everyone was going to be so nice. Then people were saying to me, 'Watch your back in D.C.' Why? Really? I have to watch my back in D.C?

I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies.

All right, funny man. Some of the shite I've seen in the last couple o' years makes AIDS monkeys sound downright sensible.