154 Quotes About Disillusionment
"You know, when you see something from the inside, you see all the corruption."
"Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things."
"Why do I feel ashamed to use words like democracy and freedom and brotherhood? They don't have meaning any more. I have nothing to write about any more. Remember all that writing I did? I was going to be a great socialist writer. I can't make sense of a word, a simple word."
"I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the New Year."
"That disillusionment, moreover, like all other vogues, having had its beginning in the higher strata of society, had descended to the lower, where it was being worn threadbare, and that, now, those who were really and truly bored strove to conceal their misfortune as if it were a vice."
"I don't want her to see how I had hoped to pity her -- how I had thought, maybe, I was meant to."
"Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it."
"He was conscious of a cold and sickly thrill throughout him; and all he reasoned was this, that the young creature whose graces had intoxicated him into making the most imprudent decision of his life, was less an angel than a women."