Billy Corgan Quotes

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

The realism of failure, the romance of success.

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.