David Hyde Pierce Quotes

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

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

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

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.'

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

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

Some people will always be disappointed.

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

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.

I'm upset when I miss.

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

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

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

I hate not giving the people what they want.

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.

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

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

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

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.

My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.

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.

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.