Suspense is worse than disappointment

Quote by Robert Burns

Topics: Disappointment Quotes

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches...

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches...

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met --...

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met --...

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my...

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my...

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the...

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the...

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...