Charlotte Bronte Quotes

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

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

The world has not promised anything to anybody

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

I don't like to think of anyone waking up every morning amazed that things haven't gone their way in life.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

Life is never quite like the brochure.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.