Quotes About Expectation

Every night I go to sleep with the hope to wake up next morning. How do I call it? Trust maybe?

It's almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.

Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen.

If you don't go to people's funerals they won't come to yours.

I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

We ought not to desire the impossible.

expectation isn't the same as desire

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.