Quotes About Letdown

But there comes a time when books let you down. Surely that time had not arrived? But in comparison with a living presence there is no contest.

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

I hate to disappoint.

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

There are certain directors I have worked with who build up the scene and get you all excited, but when you actually do it, it falls below your expectation.

He had let them down again. After a year, it was decided that the house would be completely revamped.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

They always wanted to do it for the children. But they never do, turns out, and the children go home crying, not having received the candy they were promised.

Everything in life has let me down.

Calm is the one thing that will never let us down. And Amalfitano said: everything else lets us down? And the voice: yes, that's right, it's hard to admit, I mean it's hard to have to admit it to you, but that's the honest-to-God truth. Ethics lets us down? The sense of duty lets us down? Honesty lets us down? Curiosity lets us down? Love lets us down? Bravery lets us down? Art lets us down? That's right, said the voice, everything lets us down, everything.

brow. He was beginning to feel the letdown after an action, and it was too soon.

So often in life, moments that are long anticipated turn out to be profound disappointments.

All year you look forward to the summer, and when it finally comes, what happens? Not much.

The feeling of letdown, of puzzled astonishment, persists, particularly in this neighborhood, where we have come to expect a more lavish and satisfactory autumnal show from our hosts, the Yankees, the rich family up on the hill. There has been a good deal of unpleasant chatter ("I always knew they were really cheap," "What else can you expect from such stuckups?") about the affair ever since, thus proving again that prolonged success does not beget loyalty.

I got a rock.

Hmmph. This was a sorry excuse for a baby-sitting club.

I miss how things were familiar with him, even if it was the familiar feeling of being let down.

I could always count on him letting me down.

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

energy—the so-called sugar rush of a sweetened soft drink or a candy bar—its burst of power is inevitably followed by a letdown, making it an extremely unreliable source of energy over long periods of time.

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.

Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

Afterward I sat at a picnic table, feeling that post-performance emotional letdown (that I would later, thanks to Brene Brown, be able to more accurately describe as a vulnerability hangover), and smiled when Jim sat across from me.