#appointment

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#expression #face #life #satire #life

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#surprises #life

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#relationships #young-love #love

You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Only it doesn't last and soon you realize you can only get so close and you end up brutally disappointed, more alone than ever, because the illusion-the hope you'd held on to all those years-has been shattered. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#loneliness #love #love

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand. ↗

— John Ortberg

#expectation-s #leadership #art

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#beautiful #beauty #cruel #disappointment #everlasting

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#angry #days #disappointment #hard #i

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#die #expect #husband #i #intend

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#fall #help #just #love #politicians

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#clarity #comes #conviction #disappointment #gain