Don DeLillo Quotes

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I suck at golf and a variety of other things I go out and do with my friends.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

We have never enjoyed a piece of the great American dream.

From my own kind I only learn How foolish comfort is

Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.

It's one thing to fail with something you utterly believe in, but to fail with something you don't believe in? You just feel so sordid.

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?

I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.