Eric Hoffer Quotes

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

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

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

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

Expectations are an evil thing.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Some people will always be disappointed.

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

When I won the Super Bowl I thought I was going to be, like, extremely happy. But then I really just felt like, 'Well, this is it?' I felt like I got bamboozled.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

Every time I lose a final, I am disappointed.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

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

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

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

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.