Quotes About Disappointment

Robin did not know why the announcement that Strike was off to meet Elin should lower her spirits.

He just saw her for what she was. She was no good. Some women,' she said, her chest heaving beneath the shapeless raincoat, 'aren't.

I thought you'd come back I thought you'd stop me marrying him I didn't think you'd let me do it

If you're going to treat me like some piece of special-occasion china that gets taken out when you don't think I'll get hurt, we're—we're doomed.

Thanks, anyway,' she said, and he had the feeling that he had disappointed her, that she'd hoped he would make her a promise of the truth, that he would swear upon his honor to do what everyone else had failed to do.

in days and he was too late to pick up the trail at her home station. The best he could do was to lurk around the

Jesus,' said Robin, hurrying over to them, and finding nothing else to say she repeated, 'Jesus!' 'He was definitely on our side an hour ago,' said Strike.

If that doesn't work, she can have a hundred quid." "I think she's hoping for thousands." "And I'm hoping for Christmas in the Bahamas," said Strike, as rain dotted the window behind him.

Men only give you what they give you...when they know they can't give you what you want.

Success has a million musical nuances. Failure is only the monotonous banging of a brass gong.

Nah," I said to myslef, crumpling up the note, "Non vale il pene".

You're wasting oxygen, son!

Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to the parents of a dying child. It holds up victory over the inevitable and beckons us to crawl further over slicing shards, all the while pulling back, remaining just out of reach. It makes agony out of mere pain by pretending a different outcome could have been. It laughs at mankind's embrace of it after millennia of disappointment.

We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.

What honest man was never in his life without sustenance? And what human being has ever seen as the years pass his hopes, plans, and dreams completely undestroyed? Where is the soul whose longings and daring aspirations, whose sweet and lofty imaginings of happiness have been fulfilled without that soul's having had to deduct a discount?

I'm done playing Brokeback Riverdale with you.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

What had Pledger-Brown said? Too bad, Davey; he wanted blood and all we could offer was guts.

Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a thunderstorm about to burst. Men are not sensible creatures.' 'Thank you,' said Robin.

Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment. -Hellhound

potential unrealized turns to pain.