Quotes About Disillusionment

I realised that the 'future' is different to how I imagined it. When I was a kid I thought it would be a bright, shiny Tomorrow's World. It isn't.

While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.

Yeah, the first contract I signed, that was the first time I realized, Oh man, never mind, I don't want to do this anymore, but it was too late. I realized it was a bad thing because I wanted to try out for 'American Idol' and all these different things couldn't do that because I was in this contract.

In the beginning, I was very passionate about it, I loved it. It wasn't until I actually reached the top that I became despondent. I felt like I was betrayed, betrayed by my family, my school. I felt very angry about the whole thing. You spend 12 hours a day, dancing, and then what?

The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see.

pero además había algo en Vera que lo volvía indignante: el tam tam del éxito, la idea del reconocimiento, esos espejismos de clase media por los que era capaz de dejarme sin dudar, e incluso con alegría.

Suck is life,[...]:you get to a point, one day, where you are hoping to find crap; where the best possible outcome of all possible outcomes would be the discovery, praise Jesus, of a pile of shit

Sometimes our heroes let us down.

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.

Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in life was all a mirage in a vast, empty desert.

Of course, it was all a wild dream, anyway. She could never enter into high society again.

You must not look for a grand romance, you know, however much you always enjoy it between the pages of a book.

Acaso existía el amor verdadero? La vida sería muy triste si no existiera... En realidad, sería insoportable si los desengaños del amor romántico convirtieran a una persona en una cínica incurable.

A very disappointing encounter. It had had strong romantic possibilities. Not that he was much given to romance, it was true.

His usual air of boredom and cynicism discouraged anyone from trying too hard to engage his attention.

What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it's not just me. (15)

The trouble with illusions... is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken from you

Lo que más duele de la juventud no son las hostias que da el mundo, sino las estúpidas esperanzas que se hacen pasar por certezas.

but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart