He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?
Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.
but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.
Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
The jingles saved my life. When I got hired to do that, I was on top. I finally was making a living doing what I loved. Before that, it was so bleak; it got so dark in L.A. I was 25, been living there for seven years trying to make it, and getting really close to getting signed with different bands and as a solo artist only to have my hopes dashed.
I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.
The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.
Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
