David Viscott Quotes

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

I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

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

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.

I saw everything on my parents, and I said to myself: 'I don't want to live my life like this.' They gave me everything they could but it was not amazing.

When you hang on a little too long, you disappoint your fans, and deep, deep down inside, you're disappointing yourself, and that's the part that hurts you the most.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

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

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

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?

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

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

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.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

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

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.