Anne Lamott Quotes

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

People have no idea how much I hate this job.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

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

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

Expectations are an evil thing.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.