John Frusciante Quotes

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

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

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

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.

Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

We don't make announcements until we make announcements.

It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, 'Goodbye,' but it didn't work out that way.

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.

I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'

Not being able to end the last game of my college career with a win, it really hurts.

It's always the losers who are complaining about a result.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.