Expectations Unfulfilled Quotes

#1. Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

Guy Finley

#2. Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

Scott Nearing

#3. Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Sheila Ballantyne

#4. When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Here, then, was one of my anticipations of the morning still unfulfilled. I began to wonder, next, whether my introduction to Miss Fairlie would disappoint the expectations that I had been forming of her since breakfast-time.

Wilkie Collins

#6. I don't know. I try not to think about it too much. I'm perfectly satisfied with my life. I think unhappiness comes from unfulfilled expectations." "So the less you expect from life . . ." "No. It's not like that. I just try to be happy and not wish I could do more.

Kasie West

#7. Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Even when people aren't suffering from illness or aging, our unfulfilled cravings and the cessation of temporary pleasures, as well as the dissonance between our expectations and reality, lead to dukkha.

Sara Wilson

#9. Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments?

Eva Heller

#10. I think unhappiness comes from unfulfilled expectations.

Kasie West

#11. I don't think a naked body is particularly shocking or interesting ... It's not the culture I was raised in. I was not brought up in the United States. I don't share the [attitude] that you can have graphic violence, but - God forbid - you see someone's nipples.

Anna Paquin

#12. She'd thought she'd left this behind. This crushing awful feeling of something unfulfilled, something she kept reaching for only to be dragged away and mired in others' needs and expectations and the cloying sick grasping of their love.

Cole McCade

#13. But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;

Marcel Proust

#14. Surely he had never fainted in his life! He glowed with robust good health and vibrant energy, as if he could conquer all the world and still have strength for a dance and to rescue a maiden or two.

Amanda McCabe

#15. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:

Kahlil Gibran

#16. Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#17. He said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

Jeannette Walls