Karl Pilkington Quotes

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

I don't believe in 'happy ever after' at all as a concept.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

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 had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

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

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

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.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Hope is the raw material of losers.