Hisham Matar Quotes

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

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

False hope is worse than despair.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

False hope really makes you cynical.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.