Harry Chapin Quotes

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.

But you built me dreams instead.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.