Dominick Dunne Quotes

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

Losing has an unbelievably negative impact on me.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

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.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

It's tough to lose and lose and lose and get a little closer, but you still lose.

It's tough to lose every day.

It's low-key depressing when you're not winning.

I have had my share of flops and it's very discouraging. It's pathetic to be on that side.

When things aren't going well it can feel like the world is against you and there's nowhere to turn.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to study your face. Now this is what you call a failure face, Linus. Notice how it has failure written all over it. Study it carefully Linus. You rarely see such a good example. Notice the deep lines, the dull vacant look in the eyes. Yes, I would say this is one of the finest examples of a failure face that your liable to see for a long while.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.

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

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.