C. S. Lewis Quotes

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

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

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

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

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in frustration, because every expectation is the beginning of frustration. Why does every desire end in frustration? There are only two alternatives: either you achieve your object of desire or you don't achieve it, but in both cases it will end in tears. If you achieve it you will see the utter futility of it all.

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.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

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

Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

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

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

I can't get no satisfaction.