Quotes About Disillusionment

His running was over. His dancing was over. Worse, for some reason, the way he used to feel about things was over, too. He withdrew. Things seemed silly or pointless

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.

The young man she had fallen in love with, handsome, gay, intellectual, and domineering, melted away upon closer acquaintance, and proved to have been a chimera, never to have existed outside her imagination. Linda did not commit the usual fault of blaming Tony for what was entirely her own mistake, she merely turned from him in absolute indifference. This was made easier by the fact that she saw so little of him.

It was exactly what I wanted, only once I was in it, I didn't want it after all.

Permaneció al lado de sus amigos porque pensaba que ésa era su obligación. Le mató la lealtad a gentes, cuando les llegó la hora, le traicionaron. Nunca te fíes de nadie, Daniel, especialmente de la gente a la que admiras. Ésos son los que te pegarán las peores puñaladas…

Tiene usted mala cara - dictaminó. - Indigestión. - ¿De qué? - De realidad.

Nunca de fíes de nadie, especialmente de la gente a la que admiras. Ésos son los que te pegarán las peores puñaladas.

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows." Clara

love is nothing but an overrated emotion that brings nothing but pain to those unfortunate enough to suffer from it.

Every time I think we're on to something meaningful, it dissolves into nothing.

What good was it? That was the question she would like to know. What the hell good was it. All the plans she had made, and the music. When all that came of it was this trap--the store, then home to sleep, and back at the store again.

Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. Every time I'm in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man to come trotting into my life (on a horse of course, literally trotting himself . . . ) Then you realize you don't want a long-haired posh-speaking man trotting into your life because he's the one who put you in the bloody mess in the first place.

It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to go. There are no limits. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered. The reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, that you just might have to settle a little bit less.

Try to remember the moment when all the stupid innocent things you thought about life and love, all the things you thought mattered, all the things you though were true. . .try to remember when they all turned out to be lies. —Kyle

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

Do I look like I have anything ? I asked him, in a reasonable voice. He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, Sorry, and backed away. I took a step after him. I screamed, I HAVE NOTHING! And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, See, I never had anything to start with.

all my bounce has gone flat, like soda with the top left off.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

I don't know what it is, but even when I pretty much like a man, after I date him a while, he gets to seem kind of tiresome. I just can't be bothered to act interested anymore, and then I finally tell him I don't want to go out anymore. They always get upset. - Lillian

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.

I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.