Henrikh Mkhitaryan Quotes

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

expectation isn't the same as desire

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

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."

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Let's say I was like, "I'm going to write a book this year," which I'm not. Let's just say that was it. Then it would be for the joy of writing it. It wouldn't be like, "And it's going to be No. 1 and I'm going to get rich and go on a book tour and own a library." I don't know the difference between doing what I normally do and making a resolution. And if it doesn't happen, then I'm going to be miserable.

When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.