Disillusioned Quotes

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• I've become a little disillusioned with what's happening in the theatre just in the material that's been offered to me. I wish there was material that I responded to more. I can't make a living doing theatre. But I can't wait to come back. I'm doing a lot of film auditioning. I'm trying to make a transition into film. I'd like to see if I could have a little success in front of the camera.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Theatre
  • Happening
  • Disillusioned

• There are times when I love the world and love everyone, and I want to talk to everyone, and other times when I feel really disillusioned, and like none of this is real, nothing is real around me.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • World
  • Real
  • Like

• Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think they have been largely disillusioned by the manner in which the record companies have developed music.

  

  Mick Hucknall Simply Red
  • Music
  • Radio
  • Good News

• Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Confidence
  • Artists
  • Vote

• When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Feeling
  • Appreciation
  • Explained

• We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.

  

  Charles Darling
  • Service
  • Fellows
  • Embittered

• I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Optimistic
  • Frustrated
  • Disillusioned

• When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • White House
  • Disillusioned
  • Misled

• Two reefs tower in front of the anarchist. The first, the state, must be overcome, especially in a hurricane, when the waves soar. He ineluctably runs aground on the second one, society, the very image that flickered before him. There is a brief intermezzo between the fall of the legitimate powers and the new legality. Two weeks after Kropotkin’s funeral cortege, in which his corpse had followed the Black Banners, the sailors of Kronstadt were liquidated. This is not to say that nothing had happened in between—Merlino, one of the disillusioned, hit the nail on the head: ‘Anarchism is an experiment.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Experiment
  • Anarchism
  • Legality

• I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • I Think
  • Names
  • Parties

• For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

  

  Ann Widdecombe
  • Church
  • Disillusioned
  • Compromising

• I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before.

  

  Charles Lloyd
  • Character
  • Waiting
  • Sick