Emily Giffin Quotes

Get used to disappointment.

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I've always been a glass-half-empty sort of person.

I just never count on anything. You can't.

I'm a pessimist.

I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

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