Melody Beattie Quotes

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

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

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I never promised you a rose garden.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Some people will always be disappointed.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

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

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.