Joseph Benavidez Quotes

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

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

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

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

But nothing seems to do any good.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

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

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.

All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

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

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.