Inspirational Quotes
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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.
DisillusionmentFateIdealismParadox It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
CynicismDisillusionmentIdentityIndifference I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
ChangeDisillusionmentMusic IndustryPersonal GrowthRebellion The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
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.
ChangeChaosDisillusionmentHistorical ReflectionTransition I think in the '70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the '60s as 'ideal' was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.
DisillusionmentWisdomWorldly Emptiness We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.
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.
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.
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.
