Thomas Haden Church Quotes

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

I'd lost count of the disappointments.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

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