Feeling Disillusioned Quotes

#1. 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

#2. People are fed up - and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message.

Scarlett Johansson

#3. The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

Karl Marx

#4. For the idea was by no means so stupid as it seems now
that it has failed ... (Everything seems stupid when it fails.)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.

Flavor Flav

#6. As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#7. I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

Mark Kurlansky

#8. I didn't make this plan. I just wake up sometimes and want to crawl out of my life.

Meredith Hall

#9. We'll miss all of these.
Yes ... we'll miss the days of old, ways of doing things,
when we've been able to do everything, in the future.

Toba Beta

#10. In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.

Eula Biss

#11. It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of maturer age are already sunk into corruption.

Montesquieu

#12. One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.

Charles E. Allen

#13. The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends.

Emma Forrest

#14. Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Bill Moyers