Cormac McCarthy Quotes

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

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.

Expectations are an evil thing.

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

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

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

I'm disappointed in people in general.

I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above.

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

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.