Quotes About Disillusionment

Every time I learn the truth about something, I'm disappointed

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.

Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long.

There is one sure means in life of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility and disillusionment. And that is always to ensure, to the utmost of your ability, that you are doing it solely for the money.

just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie.

all I want to do is get home and never see any of you authors ever again

His illusions about American decency had not survived the reading of American history.

Personally, I would never help mankind.

Hayalperestler, ileri görüÅŸlüler nerede, peki? Hepsini uyuÅŸturuculara ve k?r?lan heveslere mi kurban verdik?

Man kann davon überzeugt sein, sich etwas zu wünschen - vielleicht jahrelang - solang man weiß, dass der Wunsch unerfüllbar ist. Steht man aber plötzlich vor der Möglichkeit, dass der Wunschtraum Wirklichkeit wird, dann wünscht man sich nur noch eins: Man hätte es sich nie gewünscht.

When he noticed that pro basketball stars were far less likely to be called for traveling than lesser players, he didn't just holler at the refs. He stopped watching basketball altogether; the injustice of it killed his interest in the sport.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

When I had first been hurled into the world of the 1970s I had thought I found Utopia. And now I was discovering that it was only a Utopia for some. Shaw wanted a Utopia which would exist for all.

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited, 'My God, how did I ever get here?' Then, about six months later, you say, 'How the hell did the rest of them get here?'

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.