Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·Disappointment✕clear

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 4.6

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

1727

★ 3.7

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Silas Marner · 1861

★ 2.1

Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

1853

★ 2.0

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

The Sense of an Ending · 2011

★ 1.9