Hozier Quotes

I don't believe in happy endings.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.

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

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

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

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

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

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

When I was young, I had a favorite movie star. One day, I saw one of his movies, and it was bad, and he was bad in it. I could tell he didn't care and only did it for the money. I felt betrayed. I never watched another one of his movies again.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears.

Always think the worst. That way you will avoid too much disappointment in life.

Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality.

In the real world, it doesn't always go your way like it can on a television show.

I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.