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Disillusionment Quotes
AdmirationChemistryDisillusionmentLiteratureViolence In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.
DisillusionmentGenerational ConflictRebellion Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
DisillusionmentPoliticsSarcasm The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Cultural DespairDisillusionmentEconomic SymbolsEuropean IdentityHistory and Memory The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.
Celebrity CultureDisillusionmentSociety Critique The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
DisillusionmentExperience and ObservationGovernment CriticismHistorical PerspectivePolitical Skepticism I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.
CreativityDisillusionmentRelationshipsTime I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.
CynicismDisillusionmentIdentityIndifference I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
DisillusionmentFateIdealismParadox It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
DisillusionmentWisdomWorldly Emptiness We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.
