Life Expectations Quotes

“When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“More and more, I think you should have no expectations and do everything for its own sake. That way you won't be hit in the head quite so frequently.”
― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”
― Kent Haruf

“Life will fulfill your expectations.”
― Debasish Mridha

“God invents musical theatre. Satan voluntarily opts for Hell.”
― Brian Andreas, Theories of Everything

“Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library