Robert South Quotes

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

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

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

He who awaits much can expect little.

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

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

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I never promised you a rose garden.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.