Martin Freeman Quotes

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

Some people will always be disappointed.

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

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

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.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

It is always disappointing when you miss a match.

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

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?

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.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

After you get what you want you don't want it.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

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

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

I don't like to think of anyone waking up every morning amazed that things haven't gone their way in life.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

Every time I lose a final, I am disappointed.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.