Quotes About Disillusionment

But Delhi is a place where people generally assume – far more, say, than in Bangalore or Mumbai – that the world is programmed to deny them everything

I want to tell him that when we were in the camps waiting for a boat we spoke about what we imagined Australia would be like. Kangaroos, koalas, wide open spaces. Then, when we arrived, we were locked up and the images we had shrank smaller and smaller until Australia became tiny patches of sky beyond the barbed wire.

She dutifully attended McDonald's gatherings in later years, and she was liked by operators' wives and by women on the staff, but there was nothing more between us. Our thirty-five years of holy matrimony endured another five in unholy acrimony. I

Falling in love was for suckers who were in denial & hoping for a fairy tale.

I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.

We were wised up early to not celebrating our birthdays and that there was no Santa Claus and no magic.

When I first got into graffiti I thought it was going to change the world. But when, 20-years-later, it still hadn't, I got bored of the self-imposed rules.

Politicians have made people cry... politics has become a circus.

These days it takes a child nearly 20 years to find out that Superman, Batman will not come to his or her rescue.

I cannot with a clear conscience move forward supporting and promoting the Miss Universe Organization when I no longer believe in it.

I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

The pin-up thing took us completely by surprise. I found it hard because I got singled out, and I didn't like it. There was a lot of disillusionment.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. "None of this is worth it!" That's what I'd like people to hear.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. None of this is worth it! That's what I'd like people to hear.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. 'None of this is worth it!' That's what I'd like people to hear.

Two things are certain: 1) people no longer care what happens to other people, and 2) nothing makes any real difference any longer.

There are days like that. Everybody you meet is a dope. You begin to look at yourself in the glass and wonder.

I'm a weak character, without guts or ambition. I caught the brass ring and it shocked me to find out it wasn't gold. A guy like me has one big moment in his life, one perfect swing on the high trapeze. Then he spends the rest of his time trying not to fall off the sidewalk into the gutter.

Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?

Alguna vez las revoluciones fueron lo que pensamos que serían?

There shall be no more gods; there shall be no more quiet and holy places of the earth; and the sea shall be filled with our dirty works. Your women shall breed like sows, and you shall work like robots. You shall value nothing for its own sake, but only for its market value. As for living, the machines will do that for you. In the morning you shall say, Would God it evening; and in the evening, Would God it were morning.

I will tell you. This place stinks. This isn't iDEATH at all. This is just a figment of your imagination. All of you guys here are just a bunch of clucks, doing clucky things at your clucky iDEATH.

Most guys will walk into a marriage thinking... Well I just did what I was always told to do... and I said I do. And I was a stand up guy. But I don't understand why she was fucking her Boss.