Quotes About Expectation

When you've never gotten love from someone, you dob't know what it might look like if it ever does appear.

She'd wanted so much for me: the moon and more. But maybe, right now, the moon was enough.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come.

So close, I thought. A shorter fence, a fatter dog, and everything would be different.

I never expected anything from anyone. Which was not the same thing as not wanting, ever, to be surprised.

I was doing it again, jumping around. But it was so hard to start at the beginning when you knew how it would end.

After loving someone you couldn't depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say.

Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

It was like I'd waited all my life to have something like this, and I knew even then, at the start, that it would be hard, so hard to lose. The big stuff always is.

you should never be surprised when people treat you with respect. You should expect it.

If you'd asked me, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. But of course, nobody had asked me.

Embrace the messy and when things do come together just right, you'll always be pleasantly surprised.

for once life is comfortable, there is nothing to fear, nothing to fight for. Which means in turn that there is nothing to look forward to.

Punish you for what? said Jack. Everything! Nothing. I don't know. That's the problem, said Holly. That's what happens when you grow up the way I did. You spend the rest of your life just waiting for God to smite the shit out of you.

We build model ships in bottles, whispering life into the toothpicks and wire; we make plans and blueprints for the one we hope is coming. And come they do. Fleets of vessels. Battleships and barges. They arrive on the horizon, flags to the sky.

Then. I used to practice what I would look like when someone was falling in love with me.

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.

How much of what they loved in her was real, and how much was fashioned from what they envisioned her to be?

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

Going to Fords Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food.

Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too.

It is my childish mind that thinks people are ready to give it just because you need it.

Well, don't build me up so, and you won't have to tear me down.

The sense in which Goethe was right: Continued life means expectation, Death is the abolition of choice. The more choice is limited, the closer we are to death. The greatest cruelty is to curtail expectations without taking away life completely. A life term in prison is like that. So is citizenship in some countries. The best solution would be to live as if the ordinary expectations had not been removed, not from day to day, blindly. But that requires immense self-mastery.