David Nicholls Quotes

My greatest fear: repetition.

Sometimes it feels like it's show after show after show - like it's 'Groundhog Day,' and you feel like you're lost in the system.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Reform always disappoints.

I have just gotten to the point where I have been very, very disgusted with the fact that nothing is going on down there.

Our movement has accomplished nothing—anywhere.

Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

Playing eight years, never making the playoffs, you feel like you're running on a treadmill that's going nowhere. You're like, 'Is this it? Is this all football is?'

I left my cushy job as an engineer in New Delhi in 2008 to pursue acting in Mumbai. I figured roles will start pouring in as soon as I landed in the city, but my bubble burst quickly.

I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

I've lost the ability to be surprised.

I've tired of looking into the future, imagining all the things I want to have.

It's one thing to fail with something you utterly believe in, but to fail with something you don't believe in? You just feel so sordid.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?