Mikhail Lermontov Quotes

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

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

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.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

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

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Some people will always be disappointed.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

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

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

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

I stayed sober for this?

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

How my achievements mock me!

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

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