Quotes About Disillusionment

I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.

The wine is gone. Only sour wine fumes remain. Drunkenness pretends to resolution.

My God," Hadrian said. "They finally did it! All those oh-so-cute-my-cuddly-kitten-here's-a-pic bastard! They finally went and did it!

Sure. He came expecting to find two brains and found barely one.

I think … I think I am getting tired of living. Tired of the whole thing. Nothing is working like it used to. Flaws are appearing, signs of things breaking down. Inside. The very core of my spirit.

Hopes had a way of sinking fast once you stepped out of childhood.

The glass shattered like a poor man's dreams.

I enjoyed teaching you. I enjoyed your sense of wonder. Now I feel some of that is destroyed by truth, by awareness.

Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

I wrote 'Monster' and thought that it would solve a lot of my problems, that I'd have money in the bank, but I felt no different. I was still searching for something.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.

There is nothing more terrifying than realizing that the one who knows you best loves you least, pities you even.

a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments.

one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly.

they will give you a kiss maybe but after a while they will bite your heart

Love is always fake gradually it disappears

The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer.

Never fall for anyone. It's only sadness that is gifted by them to you in your rest of the life.Kills the loving person inside you.

A year ago I would've been taken in by his chivalry, but now I knew what laid behind the façade: a frog waiting to bite me where it hurt the most given half the chance.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.