Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

To all who leaned upon Mr. Gladstone, who trusted him, and hoped for something from him—chips, nothing but chips—hard, dry, unnourishing, indigestible chips.

It is always best and safest to count on nothing from America but words.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.