George MacKay Quotes

I regret how much I believed in the future.

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."

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

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!'

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

I don't have any expectations.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

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

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Some people will always be disappointed.

Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality.

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.

I guess I could sit around and say, 'Gee, I wish I were playing at the Capital Centre tonight instead of Hammerjacks,' but it doesn't happen.

If I were to finish my career without a title, I would certainly be disappointed. But I don't think it would be something that would eat away at me... I think I certainly would be able to live with it.

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

Get used to disappointment.

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.