Joseph Roux Quotes

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

Some actors are like flowers basking in the sun - they love the attention, and the fans get what they want. With me it's different. I know the fans aren't getting what they want. And I'm certainly not getting what I want.

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

No man is happy but by comparison.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

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

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

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

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

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