Claude Monet Quotes

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 have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we've had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

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.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

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

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.