Sidney Sheldon Quotes

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

But nothing seems to do any good.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

What's the bleedin' point?

I know there are certain things that I just can't win.

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

What difference, at this point, does it make?

After all, there is nothing but failure.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

It's hard to win when you always lose.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.