Mark Manson Quotes

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

'Prince of Persia' just didn't turn out to be what I thought it was going to be.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

False expectations take away joy.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

It's the fate of every executive. He gets in on promises and finds that things can't be fulfilled as he hoped.

People always want change .... Government always raises expectations far beyond what is there.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope

We were trying to achieve miracles and reduce the world to what it cannot be.

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy.