Doubt Quote by Jane Austen

“expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself.”—de”

— John Brooks

“The elixir for the vexed human spirit is quiet thinking and contemplation.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“At the same time, a faint sense of disappointment superimposed on an otherwise absorbing inner experience was in its way suitably Proustian too: a…

— Anthony Powell

“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the…

— Joseph Conrad

“The moment we decide things don't have to be a certain way, we create the possibility that they could be better than we know…

— Lori Deschene

“There was little comfort, this voice inside him said, in discovering a mystery at the wellspring of his life so banal his unremarkable mind…

— Clive Barker

“That story had at its core a discussion of my fundamental view that nothing in life is certain and that, consequently, all decisions are…

— Robert E. Rubin

“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.”

— Anthony Liccione

“Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.”

— Lionel Suggs

“With this new empathetic understanding of the context, we will find that we can imagine ourselves, in similar circumstances, feeling the same.”

— Karen Armstrong

“Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. And…

— Wallace Stegner

“that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.”

— Jaron Lanier