Quotes About Disillusionment

No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.

But disbelief wasn't enough to wound someone. Disbelief only hurt when someone wanted to believe.

Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.

Why do we grow up thinking life should be fair? Who told us that it should be? Because it never is, and finding that out . . . hurts worse than a lie.

He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the floor.

The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

A dreamcatcher is supposed to catch the bad dreams, to let the good ones through. When I was a child on the reserve, I had one hanging above my bed. I remember staring at it as I listened to my mother cry for hours in the dark. I have never known one to work.

I sometimes think,' Merlin said when no more suggestions were offered, 'that I am doomed to live among idiots.

Because I'm tired of Wessex,' I said, 'tired of priests, tired of being told what your god's will is, tired of being told that I'm a sinner, tired of your endless damned nonsense, tired of that nailed tyrant you call god who only wants us to be miserable.

Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with this outlook. All disenchantment is to me a malady, which, it is true, certain circumstances may render inevitable, but which none the less, when it occurs, is to be cured as soon as possible, not to be regarded as a higher form of wisdom.

A man votes for one party and remains miserable; he concludes that it was the other party that would bring the millennium. By the time he is disenchanted with all parties, he is an old man on the verge of death; his sons retain the belief of his youth, and the see-saw goes on

I've always had a deep distaste, since 1984, for both Republicans and Democrats.

I resent all organised religions.

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

Politics makes me sick.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach the point of being sick and disgusted with it, I wouldn't have written 'Kill Your Friends.' That book gave me my whole career.

I'm sick of environmentalism.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

I'm sick of playing romantic leads.

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.