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Quotes About Expectation

A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I'll have tomorrow for having felt regret today – huge confusions with no point and no truth, huge confusions…
~ Fernando Pessoa
se lembre como é não só melhor, senão mais verdadeiro, o sonhar com Bordéus do que desembarcar em Bordéus
~ Fernando Pessoa
Desengañémonos de la esperanza, porque traiciona en el amor, porque cansa en la vida, porque harta y no se sacia, y hasta de la muerte, porque trae más de lo que se quiere y menos de lo que se espera.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Pero el que sueña lo posible tiene la posibilidad real de la verdadera desilusión.
~ Fernando Pessoa
We are hollow inside and out, pariahs of anticipation and promise.
~ Fernando Pessoa
No le he pedido a la vida sino que no me pidiese nada.
~ Fernando Pessoa
İlerde bir gün gelecek olanlar daha ÅŸimdiden yaÅŸl?yd?; sadece hiç gelmeyecek olanlar gençti.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I want to be exactly like what I wanted to be and am not.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Like happiness, the day was taking a long time to arrive, and at that hour, it felt as if it never would.
~ Fernando Pessoa
If only the day and happiness would never come! If only hopes could at least not suffer the disappointment of coming true!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Should I one day take an earthly woman to wife, pray for me the following: that she at any rate be sterile. But also ask, should you pray for me, that I never come to have this hypothetical wife.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Te estoy esperando, como distracción, en nuestro cuarto de dos puertas y te sueño llegando a mi sueño y en mi sueño entras hasta mí por la puerta de la derecha; si al entrar lo hicieras por la puerta de la izquierda, habría ya un contraste entre mi sueño y tú.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I know not what tomorrow will bring».
~ Fernando Pessoa
Del deporte, Camus aprendió que la pelota nunca viene hacia uno por donde uno espera que lo haga: eso
~ Fernando Savater
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.
~ Flannery O'Connor
There is nothing like being pleased with your own work - and this is the best stage - before it is published and begins to be misunderstood.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Remember what you won't get if you don't mind, her grandfather remarked.
~ Flannery O'Connor
He didn't have any use for history because he never expected to meet it again. To his mind, history was connected with processions and life with parades and he liked parades.
~ Flannery O'Connor
In spite of himself, Enoch couldn't get over the expectation that the new jesus was going to do something for him in return for his services. This was the virtue of Hope, which was made up, in Enoch, of two parts suspicion and one part lust.
~ Flannery O'Connor
He didn't have any use for history because he never expected to meet it again.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Ci si rifugia nella mediocrità quando non si spera più nelle cose belle che si sono sognate!
~ Flaubert, Gustave
Life's darker side: that's Advent.
~ Fleming Rutledge
When I left my home after telling my family members that I would be meeting with Chiranjeevi, they asked me, 'Do you think you are a Chiranjeevi?' I am yet to completely live the joy of having met him.
~ Satyadev Kancharana
They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.
~ Charlotte Church