Edmund Burke Quotes

Some people will always be disappointed.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

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

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

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

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

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

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!

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Everyone has days where they don't get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can't eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.

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

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.