A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.
It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.
If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.
The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one!
