Quotes About Disillusionment

I don't know and I don't care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it. I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.

She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation.

I had a lot of those fake friends. You just have to realize it's happening. You can't get caught up in the 'Oh, my God, they want to be my friend, finally' aspect.

For the first time in my life, in my mid-20s, I started to question things. Had I been deceived? I thought I had been destined for something great - to be Whitney Houston or Jennifer Holliday or Phylicia Rashad. I started to realize that a lot of people think that, and it doesn't happen for almost everyone.

It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasn't an adventure. I got to a certain age and realized I couldn't be Indiana Jones.

I started to have almost a realization that a lot of the evangelical leaders I looked up to and found hope in - I started realizing a lot of them just weren't the people I thought they were.

I was talking recently with a friend of mine who's determined to never meet her heroes, and I have another friend who's been horribly disillusioned a couple of times. But I've had a wonderful ride with meeting people who have been my North Stars, and Bowie's definitely one of them. He feels like my cousin; like the cousin I never had.

Big Brother' has put me off people. I thought, 'I'm gonna get a dog.' I really think I'm going to become more reclusive. It was nothing like I expected. I was so naive about it.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

The record company has fought for themselves, never for me.

I've had a record deal before and I was willing to do whatever they wanted me to do and I thought that would be it. By the end of it, you know, I hated myself.

I had a dream, as young people have quite idealistic dreams and goals, of, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles, and I'm going to become a star!' I did get this huge record deal, and I recorded this music under Xavier. That didn't really work out.

Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books.

There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.

I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.

I went to London for drama school but I hated it.

I hated being a lawyer.

When I left Carlisle United for the first time at the age of 16 in 2000, I hated football.

I hated high school.

Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress.

I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.