Quotes About Expectations

In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.

A well-read man will yawn with boredom when one speaks to him of a new "good book," as he imagines a sort of composite of all the good books he has read, whereas a good book is something special, unforeseeable, made up not of the sum of all previous masterpieces but of something which the most thorough assimilation of every one of them would not enable him to discover, since it exists not in their sum but beyond it.

In short, my aunt demanded that whoever came to see her must at one and the same time approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of ultimate recovery.

A woman whom we love seldom satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman we do not love.

In reality, there is in love a permanent strain of suffering which happiness neutralises, makes potential only, postpones, but which may at any moment become, what it would long since have been had we not obtained what we wanted, excruciating.

One pretended not to know that the body of a hostess was at the disposal of all comers, provided that her visiting list showed no gaps.

We believe that we may change things around us to suit our desires, we believe this because otherwise we can see no acceptable solution. We do not think of the solution which occurs most frequently and which is also acceptable: when we do not manage to change things to suit our desires, but our desires gradually change. We become indifferent to a situation which we had hoped to change when we found it unbearable.

Pretendem os poetas que tornamos a encontrar por um momento o que fomos outrora, quando entramos em certa casa, em certo jardim em que vivemos na juventude. São peregrinações muito arriscadas, essas, ao fim das quais se colhem tantas decepções como êxitos. Os lugares fixos, coevos de anos diferentes, é em nós mesmos que é melhor encontrá-los.

Thanks to the gods! My misfortune exceeds my hopes.41

What do you have to be stressed about?" the normies might have said, if I ever talked about these things with normal people. "You have a family, a house, a car, a good job. Just deal with it!" As if I could simply do that. As if I chose this. As if I looked at the options available to me and they were clearly labeled "Perseverance" and "Freaking the Fuck Out All the Time" and calmly said, "Mmm, yes, I select option B.

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.

Their lives were their own, and in their way they loved and feared and wondered and hoped. They did not expect me to be the end of all of that.

People will eat cheeseburgers, but very few people will eat crap. Don't serve up crap.

the Cubs ought to have been demoted to the minor leagues after they went two centuries without a World Series championship.

I had a feeling that as long as I didn't admit to murdering adorable kittens in front of children, I was going to get the gig.

all our suffering is an expression and a reflection of the distance between reality and our desires and beliefs.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb. You can't make a race horse of a pig. No, said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby...I am very fortunate in having a wife who likes being a woman, which means that she likes men, not elderly babies.

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, You can't make a race horse of a pig. Samuel replies, No, but you can make a very fast pig.

Maybe everyone is too rich. I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

Porque se dice que los humanos no se satisfacen jamás, que se les da una cosa y siempre quieren algo más. Y se dice esto con erróneo desprecio, ya que es una de las mayores virtudes que tiene la especie y que la hace superior a los animales que se dan por satisfechos con lo que tienen.

You can't make a race horse of a pig. No, said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig.