Unmet Desires Quotes

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

Marriage is the death of hope.

Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

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.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.

Charlie and I were never blessed with children.

I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.