Ambrose Bierce Quotes

To be forgotten, is to die a little.

I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about.

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

Out of sight, out of mind.

She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned. I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them.

Awards that ignore me are losers.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.