Edith Evans Quotes

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

If you can't do what you want to do in your life, then it is difficult.

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

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.

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

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

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

My life has been nothing but a failure.