Jay Asher Quotes

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Get used to disappointment.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

Things are always different from what they might be.

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Always think the worst. That way you will avoid too much disappointment in life.