Quotes About Letdown

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.

It was that kind of story. The kind that's like a sneeze which threatens but never quite arrives.

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

Now I knew how women felt when they thought they were going to get a diamond ring and ended up with an onion ring

I felt like I'd just been picked last for the world's biggest game of kickball.

Last summer the plant was larger than ever. The vines ranged up to the roof on a trellis I had made. I anticipated more roses than ever. But I was disappointed. The blossoms were small and scrawny.

When we won gold I was expecting overwhelming relief, but it just didn't come.

The Avalanches was a great dance track, I thought, but I always feel a little bit let down when there are just two lines repeated constantly. Over and over. Forever.

you can't just let people down, dammit.

But. . . you said we were going to play Parcheezi. . .

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

Being kissed by Gerhart was disappointing. I had expected a kiss to feel more like the time in Yamhill when I stuck my finger in the electric socket, only nice.

There was nothing more to say. Her happy plan had come to nothing.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas

The expectation of fulfillment in relationships will always fail you

And we started flying. Sloooooowly. "Yippee?" M-Bot said. "It is kind of a letdown, isn't it?

It would be like finding out that you'd drawn lots for dessert at the Factory and been only one number off, only it didn't matter because Pete already snuck in to steal the dessert, so nobody was going to get any anyway - not even Pete, because it turns out there had never been any dessert to begin with.

The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down.

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.