Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.

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

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

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

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

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

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.