Glen Powell Quotes

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

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

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

The secret of progress, the perpetual satisfying of wants followed by the springing up of new wants, is the secret of individual unrest and disappointment.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

I don't like to think of anyone waking up every morning amazed that things haven't gone their way in life.

I wrote 'Monster' and thought that it would solve a lot of my problems, that I'd have money in the bank, but I felt no different. I was still searching for something.

It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

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.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Some people will always be disappointed.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Nobody knows what people want.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

If nobody needs me - and usually, these days, they don't - I'll fall asleep until around midnight. Then I go upstairs and work until 4 A.M., and that's when I go back to bed for good. It suits me.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.