Quotes About Expectation

What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been

I don't misjudge people. If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Pumpkin was a girl who looked as if she could grow fat quickly, given the chance.

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like paté de foie gras.

I don't know what the future is. I don't know-what I'm supposed to want.

to go, Pop. Every muscle is ready. WILLY [at the edge of the apron]: You realize what

Eddie Carbone had never expected to have a destiny. A man works, raises his family, goes bowling, eats, gets old, and then he dies. Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.

It was like exploring a place that you have seen in a dream, where everything is just where you expect it and yet everything is a surprise.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools; for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.

Of how many a man may it not be said that hope made a fool of him until he danced into the arms of death!

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

O desejo sexual, sobretudo quando se concentra na paixão, fixando-se numa determinada mulher é a quintessência de todas as fraudes desse nobre mundo; isso porque promete indizivelmente, infinitamente e extraordinariamente muito e cumpre miseravelmente pouco.

Fulfillment never satisfies, nothing is so fatal to an ideal than its realization.

Most of our suffering lies in retrospect or anticipation.

We look upon the present as something to be put up with while it lasts, and serving only as the way towards our goal. Hence most people, if they glance back when they come to the end of life, will find that all along they have been living _ad interim_: they will be surprised to find that the very thing they disregarded and let slip by unenjoyed, was just the life in the expectation of which they passed all their time.

Casar-se de maneira geral significa colocar a mão dentro de um saco sem ver o que há dentro dele e esperar tirar uma enguia de um emaranhado de serpentes.

Rahel knew that this had happened because she had been hoping that it wouldn't. She hadn't learned to control her Hopes yet.