I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.
I'd lost count of the disappointments.
There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.
I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.
The disappointment of losing is huge.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.
I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.
A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.
I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.
Unhappy failures need not apply.
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
