John Dryden Quotes

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

In life, unfortunately, I've had multiple experiences where people that I thought I could depend on have switched up, or I've caught them in lies, and their true colours have shown.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.

When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

I think, for myself, life lied to me.

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.