Quotes About Disappointment

He had failed, and that wasn't the saddest: he had seen Alex fail. In a way they were one person. Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.

She was so quick, so clear-headed, so imaginative even. But all the same, she had forgotten what people were like. Finding life dull, she had dropped lies into it, as a chemist drops a new element into a solution, hoping that life would thereby sparkle or turn some beautiful colour.

The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

Trump knew one simple fact about people that many of us choose to ignore: that even though individualism as a concept has been elevated for many decades, the ordinary man still needs a shepherd to lead him to greatness. He knew how diminishing and disappointing it can feel to realise that you are only mediocre, in a world where you have constantly been told that you can be anything you want to be.

King conveyed the gravity of the moment in 1968 and the necessity for the Poor People's Campaign, he conjured, without a hint of nostalgia, a history of the heroism of everyday people acting against all odds, a history no less full of disappointment and trauma. He

But, like Baldwin, King struggled with America's commitment to the belief that white people mattered more and to the lie that made it palatable: I must honestly confess that I go through moments of disappointment when I have to recognize that there aren't enough white persons in our country who are willing to cherish democratic principles over privilege. But I am grateful to God that some are left.

He would calculate, by reference to prophecies in the Old and New Testament, the exact date of this event; the date would pass, without the expected Advent, and he would be more than disappointed,—he would be incensed. Then he would understand that he must have made some slight error in calculation, and the pleasures of anticipation would recommence.

I was promised on a timeTo have reason for my rhyme;From that time unto this season,I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Where is Prince Charming? What ever happened to happily ever after? Why is it that a man who is unhappy with a woman--a man who may neglect, abuse or abandon her--cannot bear to see her happy alone or with someone else? That manner of macho is decidedly unattractive.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

Suficientes dolores y desengaños trae la vida por sí sola —suelo decirme— como para que uno por atolondrado, por pusilánime, cargue a sus espaldas desilusiones improvisadas.

El "pero" es la palabra más puta que conozco -. "te quiero, pero..."; "podría ser, pero..."; "no es grave, pero...". ¿Se da cuenta? Una palabra de mierda que sirve para dinamitar lo que era,o lo que podría haber sido, pero no es.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

Why am I always the bridesmaid,Never the blushing bride?

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

Marry someone who looks sexy while disappointed.

Say it ain't so, Joe.

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.

One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.