Quotes About Expectation

And how I flattered myself From time to time with proving to myself Nothing in you could be unknown to me. You don't belong to the mind's calculations, And you disproved each of my demonstrations, Since to be unexpected is your truth.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

My heart was light, quick, like an aero, and carrying, carrying me upward. I knew: tomorrow held some sort of joy. But what would it be?

A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading.

Man is like a novel: up to the last page one does not know what the end will be. It would not be worth reading otherwise

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets no one's expectation but its internal need to feel.

Nothing destroys a livable life more completely than unfounded hope

Perhaps when I say I was expecting his suicide, it is only memory going back to revise itself. There is no reason an artistic and sensitive boy could not grow into a happy man. Where and how things went amiss with him I do not know, though even as a teenager, I recognized his despondency when at school the production of his play earned him jeers and a special exhibition of his car designs estranged him from his classmates. He was the kind of person who needed others to feel his existence.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

Those immediately behind number 50 were anguish personified. They let loose an endless stream of foul language and it was hard to tell whether they were cursing themselves or cursing something else. My neighbours and I in the last third of the queue only felt a pang of disappointment whereas those who just missed out on the coupon were like people who see the duck that they had cooked flap its wings and fly away.

Unequal lives give rise to unequal dreams.

The principle of least surprise is not for you only. The principle of least surprise means principle of least my surprise.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Man always finds the omens he wants.

I somehow looked forward to death impatiently, with a sweet expectation. As i have remarked several times, the future was a heavy burden for me. From the very beginning, life has oppressed me with a heavy sense of duty. Even though i was clearly incapable of performing this duty, life still nagged at me for my dereliction. Thus I longed for the great sense of relief that death would surely bring if only, like a wrestler, I could wrench the heavy weight of life from my shoulders.

Well, that's what they do on television. Every fifteen minutes, there are breaks for commercials. That way we get to look forward to what's coming next. That's how it works in real life too.

Ever since those days this has been the attitude with which I have always confronted life: from things too much waited for, too much embellished with anticipatory daydreams, there is in the end nothing I can do but run away.

He was like a husband so jealous that he insists his wife have the very dreams he has.

Is it a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Devant ce que j'avais si longtemps attendu, devant ce que j'avais par avance trop embelli au cours de mes rêveries; il ne me restait finalement qu'un seul recours : la fuite.

Ever since then violent anticipation has always been an anguish rather than joy for me.

I somehow looked forward to death impatiently, with a sweet expectation.

I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing.