Edmund Spenser Quotes

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

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

I don't like to think of anyone waking up every morning amazed that things haven't gone their way in life.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I hate not giving the people what they want.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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

If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

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

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

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

Some people will always be disappointed.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

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

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Life does not owe me a shred.