Grimes Quotes

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

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

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.