Daniel Woodrell Quotes

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

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

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

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

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

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

He who awaits much can expect little.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

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.

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.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

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

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

I thought not getting picked in the first round was the end of the world.

False hope really makes you cynical.

Get used to disappointment.

I'd lost count of the disappointments.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.