Aimee Bender Quotes

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.

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

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

We all get discouraged.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

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

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.

80% of everything I've experienced since the Verve has been depressing.