Oscar Wilde Quotes

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."

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

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

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

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.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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

Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.

My happiness is not going to be driven solely on whether we win a Super Bowl or not.

We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

expectation isn't the same as desire