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Quotes About Letdown

How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It's like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.
~ Camilla Gibb
Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
~ Daley Thompson
You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.
~ Ani DiFranco
I thought you're someone worth fighting for. But after all, you're not.
~ Nina Ardianti, Restart
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
~ Carson McCullers
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
~ Iris Murdoch
I'm tired of caring about people who end up leaving me.
~ Susan Lee
Mr. Bachchan is too used to getting things done his way. I had always thought of him as an elegant, articulate, sophisticated, refined gentleman. What a let-down he was! What a shame!
~ Pooja Bedi
You betrayed those who had high hopes for you
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Personally, I don't like inherently happy people. I don't trust them. I think there's something seriously wrong with anyone who isn't at least a little let down by the world.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.
~ Kingsley Amis
You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." "That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.
~ Cassandra Clare
The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.
~ King of Egypt Tachos
You are a disappointment to disappointments.
~ Christopher Moore
An even worse memory followed: Gaëtan. He had abandoned her after all; it filled her with the kind of bone-deep disappointment she knew so well.
~ Kristin Hannah
Well, I guess I'll see you around. You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." "That's too bad,"said Jace, "since all the ones you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.
~ Cassandra Clare
Julian: "Wikipedia knows about everything. It might be run by warlocks." Emma: "You think that's what they do all day in the Spiral Labyrinth? Run Wikipedia?" Julian: "I admit it seems like a letdown.
~ Cassandra Clare
I'm letting you down. I get that. People always will. That's not as much of a downer as it sounds. There's a reason people will always let you down. It's because they came to this weird planet to live their own lives. Not anybody else's. Classic case of needs in conflict. You get what I'm saying?
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
~ Lionel Murphy
That's the big letdown you'll notice about filming a movie: No underline music. No mood music.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
~ Charles Dickens
Listen, don't meet your heroes. If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed.
~ James McBride
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
~ Conor Cruise O'Brien
For what its worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent goddamn state of mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit. ...Personally, I don't like inherently happy people. I don't trust them. I think there is something seriously wrong with anyone who isn't at least a little let down by the world." - Paul Hudson
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo