Lost Expectations Quotes

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he'd get back to me next year.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.

This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.

I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"

Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.