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Quotes About Disillusionment

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.
~ Kathy Griffin
Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.
~ Kelsey Grammer
Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.
~ Norman Spinrad
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.
~ Rose O'Neal Greenhow
That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
~ Gertrude Stein
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
~ Carl Sandburg
All those Disney films have you believe that one day you'll meet your Prince Charming. What they don't tell you is he comes in a psychotic package without warning labels. He
~ Susan May
Molly grabbed a vase off the mantel and flung it at the wall, knocking it into a painting of a mountain scene. The vase shattered and the picture frame swayed back and forth on the wall, taunting her with an image of what life was supposed to be like. . .
~ Susan Rose
I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all
~ Susan Sontag
He was looking at me in a way that he never had before. Impatient. A little bored. As if I were not so smart after all.
~ Susanna Moore
Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.
~ Suzanne Collins
I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.
~ Suzanne Collins
Ya no siento lealtad hacia estos monstruos llamados seres humanos, a pesar de ser uno de ellos.
~ Suzanne Collins
It must be excruciating, but I lost all my sympathy for Haymitch when I realized how he had deceived us.
~ Suzanne Collins
I try to tell myself he's probably a teddy bear on the inside. But I'm pretty sure that's not true.
~ Suzanne Young
As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.
~ John Fahey
I'm sorry - I know America is supposed to be the land of the dreams and hopes, but it's like, when was that actually a real thing? I think from the very beginning it was all a lie, and it still kind of is. Stop trying to sell the picket fence, because there's another backyard here that you haven't looked at.
~ Sasha Lane
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Oh Mom, it turns out my knight in shining armor was just some liar in tinfoil.
~ Taryn Plendl, In My Arms
In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love.
~ S.A. Tawks, Mule
Once you start living together and you see the same person day in and day out, you begin to wonder: was it for this I struggled and toiled? Did he feel that way?
~ Sachin Kundalkar, Cobalt Blue
I don't miss you, I miss who I thought you were.
~ Waseem Latif