Reality Versus Expectation Quotes

#1. The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

Cinda Williams Chima

#2. The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Marya Mannes

#3. Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Love a girl truly
Expectation: Marriage
Reality : Friendzoned

Subhasis Das

#5. I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance. Like something I was looking at through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.

Wally Lamb

#6. She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Nenia Campbell

#7. There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

Mitch Albom

#8. The best way is to accept the reality for what you have rather than to run after or curse the reality for what you don't have ... Respect, love and care those who are with you !!!!!!!

Anonymous

#9. Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.

Hector Berlioz

#10. Expectation creates the reality.

Debasish Mridha

#11. But when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.

Eric Ambler

#12. How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was.

Armistead Maupin

#13. Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Staring down the reality of war, far from home, asleep among strangers, that familiarity, those memories, those ties kept us going; gave us a reason to persevere; toughened us up.

Carlos Wallace

#15. It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

Emily Procter