Bo Burnham Quotes

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

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

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

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

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

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Marriage is the death of hope.

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

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

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.