Petrarch Quotes

After you get what you want you don't want it.

I feel like I was born in the wrong time.

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Some people will always be disappointed.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

Everyone wants to get out of living where they're living now, because life is a pretty tough proposition and not much fun. But when you think back to earlier times, you only extrapolate the nice things.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.