Hasan Minhaj Quotes

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.

In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.

I've always wanted to be what my father never was to me.

I will be unhappy if RDA ducks me. I will be very unhappy.

Taking a night off from comedy to go on a date with someone I'm probably not going to like anyway sounds like the worst trade-off in my mind.