“endless hope, endless disappointment.”

“But in the days that are now passing over us, even fools are arrested to ask the meaning of them; few of the generations of men have seen more impressive days. Days of endless calamity, disruption, dislocation, confusion worse confounded: if they are not days of endless hope too, then they are days of utter despair. For it is not a small hope that will suffice, the ruin being clearly, either in action or in prospect, universal. There must be a new world, if there is to be any world at all!”

“Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.”

“Anger is really disappointed hope.”

“A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.”

“Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option”

“Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. ”

“What the English call “comfortable” is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.”

“Who doesn't have big hopes can't be disappointed.”

“What the inner voice says
Will not disappoint the hoping soul.”