Disappointment

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Topic

Wasting time Disappointment Memories

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Sonnet 30 Shakespeare's Sonnets

Medium

Sonnet Poem

Language

English

Time

1609 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 30, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 30.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Low expectations Expectations Disappointment

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Letters of Alexander Pope

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1727 1720s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. Letter to John Gay. 6 Oct. 1727.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "To Gay, Twickenham, Oct. 16, 1727." Alexander Pope: Selected Letters, edited by Howard Erksine-Hill. Oxford University Press, 2000, no. 16.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot

Silas Marner

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Topic

Anticipation Disappointment

Speaker

Nancy Lammeter

Author

George Eliot

Source

Silas Marner

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, ch. 18.

Current Citation

Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Signet, 2007, ch. 18.

Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Brontë

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Topic

Disappointment Expectations

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Villette

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Villette. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853, ch. 36.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Villette, edited by Helen Cooper. Penguin Classics, 2004, ch. 36.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Topic

Disappointment

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.