Ben Gibbard Quotes

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.

I wrote 'Monster' and thought that it would solve a lot of my problems, that I'd have money in the bank, but I felt no different. I was still searching for something.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

I think you always have regrets.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.