Quotes About Disillusionment

How soon Mathis had been proved right and how soon his own little sophistries had been exploded in his face!

It reads better than it lives .

Worth remembering the world was never how she anxiously dreamed it.

So much for youthful idealism.

Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.

I am a beacon of hope to a vast number of young people and others who are still disillusioned and disgusted with the system.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The only way my mother's beauty really affected me was that I always assumed that someday I would look like her. Then, late in my teens, I looked at a photo of her when she was younger than I was then, and I realised, no, it's never going to happen.

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.

The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.

I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.

The Royal Ballet was good to me. They gave me everything I asked for. It's just... I felt tricked. I became a principal and I couldn't even afford to pay for dinner. I couldn't afford a flat.

I did everything religion told me to do for a long time only to end up frustrated, beat down and jaded. I couldn't keep up. No matter how hard I tried, it was never enough. So I decided to quit. And I did.

I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.

I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.

The Republican base - the Evangelical get-out-the-vote troops - are going to be devastated when they discover how many closeted gay Republicans were involved in policing Mark Foley in the House of Representatives.

You can't trust people.

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people.

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

The truth is, one of the best things about being 15 years old is that things like candy are still exciting. Once you get older, once you've been knocked down enough by this cruel thing we call life, that just won't be the case anymore. Eventually, you'll become jaded.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.