Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Quotes

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

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

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

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

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

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.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.

I was always the kid who wanted Christmas to not come, because I realized at a pretty early age that no matter what you got, there's always a little bit of a letdown. It's like, 'Oh, gee, I wanted two ponies, not one.'

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

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

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'