Michelle Beadle Quotes

Nothing amazes me anymore.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

For years we have been giving their political leadership the benefit of the doubt, and now only doubt remains.

All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought I'd get older and become an unnaturally cheerful old fart. But it's not happening.

Nothing really shocks me anymore.

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?

Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

When you grow up, your heart dies.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

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

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

The strangest thing. I came to the end of other people so quickly. Each new person was like a glass of water, and at the beginning I was parched, but then each glass tasted a little worse, the water was grittier, and by the end even the first sip was enough to make me gag, you know?

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.