Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That's what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

I'll never be on the level of my idols.

Chasing perfection can make you go mad.

Ultimately, we stars are human being at the end of the day. We also have bad habits, weaknesses, we also make mistakes.

When you want too much, you don't usually achieve much.

I know I may never emerge as a leading man.

When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken.

We are all people who have messed up. I fall short every single day.

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.

We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.