Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

What the hell, I paid my dues.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

You only have to pick up a paper to see the sort of scams and injustices that are out there. There's a sense that people don't belong and just aren't very happy. They're outraged, in fact, and they're being shafted left, right and centre.

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

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

I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.

The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.

Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

Thir must be less tae life than this

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

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

We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.