Quotes About Disappointment

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Even when your dream that you set out comes true, it's not always perfect, and there isn't always the kiss at the end, and we all get to live happily ever after. That's not the reality of life.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.

I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

Nash has been the sun lighting up the horizon of my life, outshining everything else in my world. I'd thought once that he was to good to be true. Turns out I was right.

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.

All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.