Life Quote by William Sansom

“The biggest disappointments in life come from having expectations that life will be a certain way and then finding out it isn’t.”

— Kate McGahan

“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach-that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never spontaneous again.”

— Philip Roth

“Theoretically he knew that life is possible, may even be pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that…

— Willa Cather

“...and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said,…

— George Orwell

“So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to…

— Matt Haig

“Life is full of disappointments, but we have to take some risks. None of us can predict the future, for only God knows what's…

— Wanda E. Brunstetter

“It was possible, he understood, for a person’s life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came,…

— Justin Cronin

“Life was fleeting, I had learned, and death guaranteed. There had to be some greater purpose to it than the routine existance of daily…

— Moazzam Begg

“There are so many of us who would have to live with the things done and things left undone that day. Things that did…

— John Green

“He could not even take comfort in knowing that he had spent most of his adult life in dread of calamities had not materialized,…

— J.K. Rowling

“He knew that all was well, because he had done the best that he could, from day to day. He had been true to…

— Henry van Dyke

“Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential.”

— Saul Bellow