Quotes About Disillusionment

This is all disillusioning, Beenay. I thought it was only us psychologists who made the data fit the theories and called the result 'science.' Seems more like something the Apostles of Flame might do!

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

Se sentía agobiado por la imbecilidad de la raza humana.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.

No man is a hero to his own wife; no woman is a wife to her own hero.

No man is a hero to his valet.

The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

In the 2010 general election, the Liberal Democrats built their campaign around a pledge to abolish tuition fees. By the end of that year, however, they had tripled them instead. The Liberal Democrats had made young people feel as if they were on their side. They were not.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don't know them: it turns out that they betray you. It's painful, but it's best to turn the page.

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.