Quotes About Disappointment

When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one? If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.

I did not understand why Alfrida looked at him with such a fiercely encouraging smile. All of my experience of a woman with men, of a woman listening to her man, hoping and hoping that he will establish himself as somebody she can reasonably be proud of, was in the future.

How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems to diminish the book's authority, making the author seem like somebody who is just hanging on to the gates of Literature, rather than safely settled inside.

And so it often happened with those practical people. In spite of their calculations, their survival instincts, they might not get as far as they had quite reasonably expected. No doubt it seemed unfair.

Alas he had forgotten, he said, that she was a novelist as well as a mathematician. What a disappointment for the Parisian that he was neither. Merely a scholar, and a man.

Kay and Beverly were a disappointment to me. They worked hard at Modern Languages, but their conversation and preoccupations seemed hardly different from those of girls who might work in banks or offices.

She can have them, Mama, she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her.

Happiness was just a trick in your case.

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Some deep disappointment in early life had soured its disposition, and it had declared war upon the whole world.

You keep your wine in a paper bag, you shouldn't be too upset when it leaks.

Promises are like flowers, often given, rarely kept

i want... i want a chance to do it all again. To do it... right.' Tears showed in the Old Man's eyes. 'How ever did it go so wrong, Temple? I had so many advantages. So many opportunities. All squandered. All slipped away like sand through a glass. So many disappointments...' 'Most of them you brought on yourself' 'Of course.' Cosca gave a ragged sigh. 'But they're the ones that hurt the worst.

Isern squelched up the bank with Rikke's dripping trousers. 'Clean as new snow! Your only stench now shall be of youth and disappointment.

I'd hate to be lost. But prepare yourself for the possibility of disappointment. Life is full of them." And the manner of its endings is often the greatest one of all.

Surprise is like virginity. You only get the one chance at using it, and that normally turns out a crushing disappointment

The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lie. The failures, the disappointment,the regrets,they stay raw as the moment they happened. A pretty girls smile, never acted on. A petty wrong we let another take the blame for. A nameless shoulder that knocked us in a crowd and left us stewing for days, for months. For ever. This is the stuff the past is made of. The wretched moments that make us what we are. "(less) (less)

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.

No debería haberse permitido albergar ilusiones, pero las esperanzas son como las malas hierbas, que siguen apareciendo por muchas veces que las desbroces.

Elállt az es?, a földek fölött kisütött a nap. Halvány szivárvány nyújtózott a szürke égbolt alatt. Monza kíváncsi lett volna, tényleg manók laknak-e a tövében, ahogyan az apja mondta neki, vagy ott is csak szar van, ahogy mindehol máshol. Kihajolt a nyeregb?l és a búza közé köpött. Manószar talán.

So often in life, moments that are long anticipated turn out to be profound disappointments.

Helping people was always a mistake... Trust was a word for fools. It was a word people used when they meant to betray you.