Dave Eggers Quotes

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

I work hard. I never want to live with that feeling that I've disappointed somebody.

A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.

Great guys exist. They may not be in the package you think you like, and they may not come when you feel you deserve them the most, but they're there. I believe it. You should too. Because now I'm with someone who makes me grow every day. His name is Netflix.

I had spent so long trying to be the perfect husband.

I don't ever want to let anyone down. That's my worst fear.

I think love isn't doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn't always work out.

People are entitled to their friendships, and we're all entitled to be disappointed by our friends when they disappoint us.

I tried marriage. Do I advocate it? Yes. Marriage is a wonderful institution, provided you meet the right person and you be the right person.

It's easy to let yourself down - it's tough to let other people down.

If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved.

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

So many people have disappointed me. And there's also been so many people - not so many, but a few people who make everything worth it, stick through it, and they show loyalty. And no matter what goes down, seas or rough or calm Sunday afternoon, those are people that are worth it. You die for those people.