Quotes About Disillusionment

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.

Mike Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party and you're going to say it sucks and we're all gonna leave and then we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's somebody else who's more important she should be talking to. And it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack, you know

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

I sniffed stardom. But my nose betrayed me.

Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me.

Every sunny familiar spot in our shared landscape had become a dark minefield, fraught with treacherous nuances and implications.

and sleepily thought of how technology was no longer the source of wonderment and possibility it had been...

I never want to feel grateful about being deceived.

Thats always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think theyre just never going to hurt you, then they do. Thats when you get the worst heartbreak.

I'm here to speak for those who say the American Dream isn't working for them, because I know it isn't. I'm here to say it's not your fault: the ruling class... has failed you.

In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

Marriage is the death of hope.