Quotes About Disappointment

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.

Life is never quite like the brochure.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

You need to know that even as life develops in superficially disappointing ways, there is still fun to be had.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

Maybe one day it would happen. Maybe one day her life would start going according to plan instead of spluttering and stalling like some clapped-out old banger.

She probably should've seen it coming, but she'd put too much faith in the system. And that was a hard pill to swallow.

Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.

one thing, they don't have a mission and purpose to guide them. They thereby put themselves on an emotional roller coaster, and this is a fatal error, as we shall see time and again in these pages. Disappointment, excitement, despair, hope—they experience the whole range of emotions, and all because they're reacting to events over which they don't have control and ignoring those over which they do have control.

If we want that power to quicken our friends who are dead in sin, we must look to God, and not be looking to man to do it. If we look alone to ministers, if we look alone to Christ's disciples to do this work, we shall be disappointed. If we look to the Spirit of God and expect it to come from Him and Him alone, then we shall honor the Spirit, and the Spirit will do

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

The examen is an immediate solution to the problem of what do Ipray about? The answer is: everything that's happened to you today. You might have the impression that your everyday life is the dreary same old, same old. It isn't. Daily life is rich and meaningful. Every encounter, every challenge, every disappointment, and every delight is a place where God can be found.

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

Mr. Gaddis admitted the school wasn't much to look at before dropping the first match and lighting another. "But it's better than nothing." It is nothing! I screamed. Inside my head, of course. And I might even have said it out loud except I was too shocked to open my mouth. Johnnie Hatter's hole in the riverbank is probably better than this.

Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher.