Thomas Ligotti Quotes

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

Nothing keeps its promise.

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.