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“What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.”
“disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;”
“I really rarely meet someone with quality like this:has great expectation and persistent efforts to earn it,yet also had a high immunity against disappointment.Jarang sekali aku bertemu orang denga...”
“Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes.”
“To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.”
“The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it.”
“I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.”
“Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hop...”
“You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull a sword out of a stone, or rescue a damsel in distress, or-- so we play games and we read books ...”
“Failure is an arrow pointing the right direction.”
“I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.”
“Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gu...”
“I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.”
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Daz...”
“Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, o...”
“In this world, who can do a thing, will not;And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:Yet the will's somewhat somewhat, too, the power And thus we half-men struggle.”
“How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the wor...”
“Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.”
“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disap...”
“Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.”
