Quotes About Letdown

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

Szégyenkezve és reménykedve keresett új kapcsolatokat, és mindig kiábrándult. Mert olyan elkeseredetten keresett barátokat, sohasem talált egyet se.

If this is the ride of my life, I want a refund.

To Tess's immeasurable disappointment, she woke up.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

When you ask for a frigate, they give you a raft. Ask for sailors, they give you tavern waiters. And if you want breeches, they give you a vest. Benedict Arnold to David Hawley, August 1776 In

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.

I know what it's like to go to a concert, wait to hear your favourite song - and then they don't play it!

He clearly regarded finding the glove compartment locked now as a disappointing development. Like arriving someplace for dinner, assuming you'd be welcome, and finding your place setting in the cupboard.

He had seemed fierce and noble but in the end he was as disappointing as everyone else.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

How very disappointing truth is sometimes.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

The 2012 Olympics was such a high, but once it was over, I felt really down in the dumps. You don't really look beyond the event which you've spent four years preparing for, and so there's a bit of a comedown.

To see Sridevi making tea in Boney Kapoor's kitchen was a huge letdown. I won't forgive him because he brought the angel down from heaven to the kitchen of his apartment.

The heartbreak of finding an empty teacup when you thought there was one gulp to go.

We had a consuming desire, from the beginning, to see a pony rider, but somehow or other all that passed

When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts...it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

Because the intimacy is extended to Sontag's reader, the love story becomes an implicit ménage à trois. Each essay enacts the effort — the dialectic of struggle, doubt, ecstasy and letdown — to know another writer, and to make you know him, too. And, more deeply though also more discreetly, to know her.

He will let you down, because that's what he does. That's who he is.