Quotes About Disillusionment

In those days I still believed the love of a man for a woman and a woman for a man was stronger than the love of drinkin and hell-raisin—that love would eventually rise to the top like cream in a bottle of milk. I learned better over the next ten years. The world's a sorry schoolroom sometimes, ain't it?

God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy

Same shit, different day, he thinks, but now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness that feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Reality tastes like ashes

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

There's no future in England's dreamingNo future, no future, no future for youNo future, no future, no future for me

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched out ahead of you.

It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched ahead of you.

He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of the world, expecting everything to be different, and never quite got over the fact it felt the same.

Scratch a cynic and you'll find a disappointed idealist.

I used to believe in the idea that justice would prevail if you worked hard enough at it....I thought that if judges saw cheating right in front of them, they'd do something about it. The Woburn case gave me a depressing dose of reality.

How the hell are you idiots allowed to run a country? I should have voted for a clown college. They'd at least have a reason for being this stupid.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him. The shame is overwhelming.

todo invita al descompromiso.11 La desidia está de moda; está de moda la vida rota, deshilachada, así como los personajes sin mensaje interior.12

Relativismo, escepticismo y finalmente nihilismo tienen un tono devorador, porque de ellos emerge un hombre pesimista, desilusionado, indiferente a la verdad por comodidad, por no profundizar en cuestiones sustanciales. Así surge la idea del consenso como juez último: lo que diga la mayoría es la verdad.

Recordó arrepentido su último ligue con una loca levantada en el Nueve, una diseñadora de vestuario mimosa hasta el empalago. Fue como acostarse con un malvavisco.

Cuando leo algo que entiendo perfectamente, lo abandono desilusionado. No me gustan los relatos con historias comprensibles. Porque entender puede ser una condena. Y no entender, la puerta que se abre.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.