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Quotes About Disillusionment

The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Rainshadow Road
Ah, love. That's what the world has lost. There's no more love, only the illusion of it.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Fever
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
~ Alice Hoffman
Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it.
~ Jay Roach
I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.
~ Janet Fitch
I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
~ Lady Gaga
Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.
~ Liz Phair
I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
~ Lord Byron
Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
~ Lorrie Moore
If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.
~ Moby
always courting disaster to experience the biggest high. I'd been living the deranged life. I felt so nihilistic, yet why hadn't I just tuned in and dropped out? Instead, I followed Jim Morrison's credo, the credo of Coleridge and, at one point, Wordsworth, the credo of self-discovery through self-destruction I so willfully subscribed to until this moment:
~ Billy Idol
People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed
~ Bob Dylan
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid
~ Bob Dylan
People are crazy and times are strange, I'm locked in tight I'm out of range, I use to care but things have changed.
~ Bob Dylan
This place don't make sense to me no more.
~ Bob Dylan
I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn
~ Bob Dylan
In a small group meeting in his office one day, Kelly said of the president, "He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown. "I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had.
~ Bob Woodward
Kelly said of the president, "He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown. "I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had.
~ Bob Woodward
Remember, there are neither honest people nor friends anymore. Still less anyone knowledgeable
~ Boris Pasternak
di interi giorni, non serbo che il ricordo di un'irritata frenesia. Avevo perso ogni senso, ogni rispetto; credevo la mia vita una tragedia mal recitata e perciò avevo urgenza di dimenticare.
~ Susanna Tamaro
I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
~ Sylvia Plath
I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.
~ Sylvia Plath
Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
~ Sylvia Plath