Malcolm Young Quotes

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.