Quotes About Letdown

For what it's 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." He paused to pick a piece of tobacco off his tongue. "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.

The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of joy. Any alternative we might choose would be the letdown.

The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of all joy. Any alternative we might choose would be the letdown.

I left the Rocking Vicars, thinking I was going to be a star in my own right immediately. Everything was going to be wonderful and huge women would get a hold of me and do things to me with raw carrots – you know, shit like that. Of course, it didn't happen quite that way.

Well that's disappointing," Grandma Mazur said. "I expected something better from her.

My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative to do anything with music for years. I didn't tell him I was playing in bands when I was away from home, because it had been such an unpleasant experience and a letdown for him.

You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience.

I have such a lowered bar of expectation, and they managed to crawl underneath it. ~ Jon Stewart

My mind and I had a meeting, and we came to the conclusion that you're going to let us down. We are here every minute of the day getting ready for the let down. So when you push me away, I'll just say ok, because we came to that conclusion a while ago. Like I said, we were ready for the let down.

A friend that lets you down is like a coat that lets in water.

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

People could not be trusted. They always let you down, and Will Sinclair had already proven that to her, hadn't he?

Looking back I remembered other occasions when Miles had let me down; this was not the first time—nor the second time. I had made excuses for him because I had admired him so tremendously.

sometimes adulthood felt like the vet's office and she was the dog excited for the car ride—only to find out the destination.

For the first time ever, Mickey Mouse let me down.

The sad thing is you think your friendship and respect was better than that...so disappointing.

Relying too much on something or someone will always lead you to disappointment.

Being disappointed is a major disappointment.

I hate being disappointed..it really takes a toll on me when it comes from certain people.

I hate getting my hopes up and then being very disappointed in the end.

The only thing worse than being disappointed is being the disappointment.

I hate being let down. Seriously don't make promises you ain't gonna keep.

I'm tired of always being let down. Such a disappointment...

I'm being let down, and being taken for a fool again.