Susanna Kearsley Quotes

Nothing keeps its promise.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

I grew up in Flint, Michigan so I'm used to broken promises so I don't look forward to anything. I look forward to the now. I don't even like planning trips more than a week ahead because you don't know how you're going to feel a week from now.

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

The future just isn't what it used to be

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.