Len Wiseman Quotes

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

After you get what you want you don't want it.

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

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

I hate not giving the people what they want.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

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!