Jim Butcher Quotes

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

He who awaits much can expect little.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

I never promised you a rose garden.

When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

I get tired too, just like everybody else. Sometimes I tell people that, but all I get is people saying that being vulnerable and weak is just not like me. I rarely get the response of emotional support I want. But sometimes I need it.

This is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first review.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

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

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

You've never met a more flawed guy than me.