Alex Hirsch Quotes

I can't get no satisfaction.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.

I know how it feels to sit on the sideline and watch a spot that is supposed to be yours taken.

Despair - or as I like to call it, des-pair - means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope - and you're not.

In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.

When you can't do what you love all of a sudden because of an uncontrollable situation, it sucks.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar.