Anna Chlumsky Quotes

After you get what you want you don't want it.

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

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

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.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

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

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

Some people will always be disappointed.

I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.

'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.

When I left the Seekers it was because I was unhappy. I wouldn't have left if I'd been happy.

I will be unhappy if RDA ducks me. I will be very unhappy.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

I hate not giving the people what they want.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.