Quotes About Disappointment

It was very sweet revenge, indeed. It was compensation for the garlic that was never to be. It was about garlic, and yearning, and disappointment, and justice. It was about so many things.

That was what the story of Goldilocks and the three bears was all about: breach of trust.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already failed.

Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.

Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope?

In addition to a pitiable cycle of search and inevitable disappointment, she sometimes chose unsuitable partners for friendship, romance, or marriage - perhaps in the unacknowledged belief that in repeating the unhappiness of the past she might, at last, reverse its effects.

It wasn't because Eva had not tried her best. She had nearly killed herself trying. But she had been like a gifted mathematician set to paint a picture.

I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.

Why is it no one ever sent me yetOne perfect limousine, do you suppose?Ah no, it's always just my luck to getOne perfect rose.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it." [ Women Know Everything! ]

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it's sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

I think you're a shit,' said Keith sharply. 'I think much of what you've done this season is shit and I think what you've put everyone involved with this club through is shit. How's that?

Hall shook his head. "Humanity," he said sadly. "Sometimes it's really hard to be a fan.

bright lights," he said. "I'm afraid we're a disappointment compared to Hollywood's

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.

Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If theyre the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.