Quotes About Expectation

De alguna manera, la decepción había hecho mucho más concreto el concepto del paraíso.

A universe of surprises is what I pray for

Hope clouds observation

I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive," Kynes said.

Si los deseos fueran peces todos arrojaríamos nuestras redes.

The waiting moment was packed with time, with rustling needle-stick movements.

the buoyancy of chiliasts

I requested off this damn night shift four times now. Barbara needs me. Barbara and little James. So I hope it's boy, so what?

When i see an ugly bride, what i am really seeing is a glimmer of hope for the future [maybe i will marry someday.]

In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting for it.

The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: 'I do not love you,' but: 'You cannot love me, much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you.' It is consequently incorrect to say that I have known the words, 'I love you'; I have known only the expectant stillness that should have been broken by my 'I love you,' that is all that I have known, nothing more.

The messiah will come when we don't need him anymore.

The man from the country has not expected such difficulties; the law, he thinks, should be accessible to everyone and at all times; but as he now takes a closer look at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, at his large pointed nose, his long, sparse, black Tartar beard, he decides that it is better, after all, to wait until he receives permission to enter.

Parents who expect gratitude from their children (there are even those who demand it) are like usurers, they are happy to risk the capital as long as they get the interest.

Kafka regarded the end of The Metamorphosis- its composition in interrupted by a business trip- as unreadable. He also wrote in his diary that he found itbad, but of course Kafka relished his failure. Failure is precisely what he expected and resolved to accomplish- and he hid behind it.

En lugar de un saludo, yo te decía, rápidamente, movido por algo que veía en tu rostro Me imaginabas distinto. Tú respondías: Si te he de ser franca, te imaginaba más guapo

I'm not suggesting that you don't master German. Most of the time you master it surprisingly well and if once in a while you don't, it bows before you of its own accord, and this is particularly pleasing, for this is something a German doesn't dare to expect from his language, he doesn't dare to write so personally.

In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting fot it. (Epígraf a Laszló Krasznahorkai, «Tango Satánico», citació de Kafka, «El castell»)

Your eyes seem to be expecting miracles I would be most honored and willing to perform.

We come to mistake the crumbs of mercy for the feast of love

Man mußte nur über irgendeine Sache glücklich sein, von ihr erfüllt sein, nach Hause kommen und es aussprechen und die Antwort war ein ironisches Seufzen, ein Kopfschütteln, ein Fingerklopfen auf den Tisch: »Hab auch schon etwas Schöneres gesehn« oder »Mir gesagt Deine Sorgen« oder »ich hab keinen so geruhten Kopf« oder »Kauf Dir was dafür!« oder »Auch ein Ereignis!«

The road is endless, there are no shortcuts and no detours, and yet everyone brings to it their own childish haste.

Sometimes it's as though I were a gladiator in training. He doesn't know what they have in store for him, but to judge by the training he is being put through, it may be a great battle with all of Rome looking on.

No se hacen promesas para esperanzas aparentemente imposibles de cumplir, pero si llegan a cumplirse, es como si las promesas hubieran estado justo allí donde se las había buscado en vano.