#appoint

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#heart #loneliness #love #love

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment? ↗

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

#disappointment #love #love

Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable ↗

— Stephen Dunn

#love #pleasure #love

You said you were a fairy princess You said you were a shooting star You said we'd go to Bora Bora Now look at where the fuck we are ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#illusion #love #love

Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#disappointment #love #love

We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#healing #love #oneness #pain #love

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered? ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#marriage #marriage

God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed ↗

— Aleatha Romig

#consequences #disappointment #romig #truth #romantic

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed. ↗

— W.C. Bennett

#gratitude #gratitude

Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.” If you expect the worst, you’re never disappointed,” I pointed out. Yeah, but who lives like that? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#expect #hope #lock-and-key #negative #positive