Jon Bellion Quotes

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

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

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

Some people will always be disappointed.

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

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

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

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

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

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

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.

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.