Francis Quarles Quotes

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

Illusions are bound to be shattered

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

False hope is worse than despair.