Tobe Hooper Quotes

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

What is more miserable than discontent?

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Want is misery.

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

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.

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

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.