Patrick Stump Quotes

I can't get no satisfaction.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

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

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

I hate everything I do. I hate my voice. I sound like a guy.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

The worst thing in life is not to die but to live with bitterness.

If you don't have an outlet, you become a criminal - or misanthropic.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.

You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long.

You want to be the best, and you hear a lot of good things about yourself, and then you find out that you're going to debut as a caddy - it's a little gut-wrenching, and it hurt.

Despair - or as I like to call it, des-pair - means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope - and you're not.