Quotes About Disillusionment

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.

And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

Life is not kind. Who are you trying to kid, Kendall?" He sighed.

We thought we were invincible and Dominic proved us all wrong, " - Jesse Carlisle

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They're all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that.

In spite of everything, he still felt wonderful, like I was embracing a mountain. But I now knew that as solid as he seemed, he was no mountain.

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?

What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?

Bret Easton Ellis

it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one's taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person's love or kindness. Nothing was affirmative, the term "generosity of spirit" applied to nothing, was a cliché, was some kind of bad joke.

it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one's taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person's love or kindness... God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted.

Cualquiera que fuera el interés que compartían se evaporó tan rápido que pareció no haber existido en absoluto. Robby se nos acercó penosamente bajo el destello de las luces del centro comercial y de pronto me preocupó que su vida tuviera tan poco de poesía o romanticismo. Todo giraba en torno a una cotidianidad ansiosa y aburrida. Todo era una representación

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way I could be disappointed since I no longer found anything worth looking forward to?

I hated being twelve. Back in '65, I just wanted to grow up fast so everything would finally be good, you know? But truth is, life was actually way better back then. Turns out, the older you get... the more everything just turns to shit.

Ciba: I thought you were supposed to be some big brave war hero. What about that goddamn gold star you polish every night? Natalya: You know what this shiny piece of tin is, you fucking space cadet? It's the way stupid boys trick other stupid boys into dying for bullshit causes ... and I'm done acting like one of them.

On iki ya??nda olmaktan nefret ediyordum. 1965'teyken bir an önce büyümeyi ve sonunda her ÅŸeyin düzelmesini istiyordum, anlars?n ya ? Ama asl?nda hayat çok daha iyiydi. MeÄŸerse yaÅŸland?kça... her ÅŸey iyice boka bat?yormuÅŸ.

Well, come to think of it, if we lose a job, we lose our sense of identity. That's one of the reasons many people get very disillusioned when they retire. They seem to lose their sense of purpose. Suddenly, there is nothing to do, no place to be, no one to need you or value you," he explained.

Young men then went to war believing all of the fine stories they had grown up with; and if, in the end, their disillusion was quite as deep and profound as that of the modern soldier, they had to fall farther to reach it.

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

Sex. It's the biggest sham of all. I mean, your whole life, all you ever hear is how you're supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how it's so special. And then you finally do it. And you're like, that's it? This is what everyone's been raving about?

Cada vez que un hombre me dice que es un romántico, me dan ganas de escupirle. Únicamente significa que tiene una idea romántica de ti, pero en cuanto te muestras tal y como eres y dejas de encajar en su fantasía, se desinfla. Los hombres románticos son un peligro. Cuanto más lejos, mejor.