Keith Waterhouse Quotes

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that we're told is going to be the big event, and sometimes the big event is disappointing.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

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

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

It got to be so easy that I was actually disappointed.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

I can't tell you how excited I was when I joined my first book club, but I can tell you how much I immediately regretted it.

Get used to disappointment.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

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.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

I have earned my disillusionment.

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

He who awaits much can expect little.