Quotes about Disillusionment

one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

Parents are strange and wonderful creatures. When you're small they seem bright, shiny, and invincible. As you grow, that image starts to fade. It's a sobering moment, but the time will come when you realize they are not the heroes you imagined. They are just people struggling to do the best they can, just the same as you are.You will feel let down, betrayed, even ashamed. This is the time,...when you need to forgive your parents for being human.

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

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

Six months into the bliss of edible sex, free-style music, challenging books and the company of an easy undemanding Bride, the fairy-tale castle collapsed into the mud and sand on which its vanity was built. And Booker ran away.

All over America highschool and college kids thinking 'Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking' while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

We tell children about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy for reasons we think emotionally sound, but then disabuse them of these myths before they've grown. Why retract? Because their well-being as adults depends on them knowing the world as it really is. We worry, and for good reason, about adults who still believe in Santa Claus.

Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy!

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.