32 Best Disillusionment Quotes

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

I don't miss them, I miss who I thought they were.

The hardest thing in life is letting go of what you thought was real. – Brooke Davis

I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. – Daisy Buchanan

I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. – Daisy Buchanan

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. – Nick Carraway

I used to want to be an astronaut. But astronauts don’t even go to the moon anymore. – Rust Cohle

I don't believe in it. I don't believe in the pills. I don't believe in anything. – Iris

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. – Tyler Durden

I'm not fighting for anything anymore, except myself. I'm the only cause I'm interested in. – Rick Blaine

The higher I go, the crookeder it becomes. – Michael Corleone

All my life I kept trying to go up in society, where everything higher up was legal, straight. But the higher I go, the crookeder it becomes. – Michael Corleone

We were all told we could grow up to be anything we wanted. It turns out, the hardest thing is to figure out what that is. – Gideon

I see the same thing you do, I just don't believe in it anymore. – Jax Teller

The whole world is upside down. – Gillian Darmody

This world is nothing but a cage filled with idiots. – Makishima Shogo

That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. – Holden Caulfield

Every time she went to a ball, she promised herself to enjoy it thoroughly, and was cross with the world and with herself for the disillusionment she invariably felt afterwards.

He promised to follow her to the ends of the earth, but she was so disillusioned that she told him that she was not going to any ends of the earth, but that she was going to shut herself up in a convent.

That's the attractive thing about war; absolutely no one gets what they want.

I'm an invisible man. Thus I have come a long way and returned and boomeranged a long way from the point in society toward which I originally aspired.

I just can't stomach any more of those Capitol parties. – Haymitch Abernathy

That John Denver's full of shit, man. – Lloyd Christmas

You were right. I was a fool to believe that love was enough. – Sally Owens

I ain't cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin' the truth's not cynical, is it? – Jem Finch

I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads… every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. – Crooks

Was nothing real? – Truman Burbank

Was anything real? – Truman Burbank

You probably think this world is a dream come true... but you're wrong. – Coraline Jones

You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong. The world is cruel. – Harvey Dent

I used to want to save the world. To bring a new and better justice to the world of man. But I learned, slowly, that you cannot save everyone. – Diana Prince

The real world is not what I thought it was. – Stereotypical Barbie