Quotes About Disappointment

It seems a commonly received idea among men and even among women themselves that it requires nothing but a disappointment in love, the want of an object, a general disgust, or incapacity for other things, to turn a woman into a good nurse. This reminds one of the parish where a stupid old man was set to be schoolmaster because he was past keeping the pigs.

We stare at the wonders of the world, dulled-eyed, underwhelmed.

Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore.

If you were sad about something that hadn't happened yet you couldn't be disappointed.

Horrid Henry scowled. Typical teacher. You're interested enough in what they're saying to ask a question, and suddenly they don't want to answer.

And underneath, Robin Wilson is a deranged freak! Why she doesn't like any of us after all we did for her, I'll never know. But it's the mark of a sick person.

She probably missed the Morrows' party on my account, waiting around the house for me to show up, Elizabeth thought, heaving a deep sigh.

Where's Mom? I can't wait to tell her all about this." "She's going to be late. An appointment, I think." "Again?" Jessica pouted. "That makes three nights in a row! I thought mothers were supposed to stay home and fix dinner once in a while!

We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.

And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers

God permits suffering. He permits injustice. I know your father can be cruel and selfish at times. But there were tender moments in the beginning. He lives with bitter disappointment. He's never learned to count his blessings. If you are to rise above your circumstances, you

Me desperté de la anestesia con una sensación de profundo abandono, y le pregunté a la enfermera si era niño o niña. Me dijo que era una niña, y volví la cabeza y me eché a llorar. «Estupendo», dije, «me alegra que sea una niña. Y espero que sea tonta. Es lo mejor que en este mundo puede ser una chica: una tontita preciosa».

un de ces hommes qui atteignent un tel degré d'excellence à vingt et un ans, dans un domaine par ailleurs limité, que tout, après cela, ne peut avoir qu'un goût de défaite.

The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain things in it — to remember, to keep in mind — as they make their way up the hill. If you hand them a yellow Volkswagen and they have to haul this to the top of the mountain — to the end of the story — and they find that this Volkswagen has nothing whatsoever to do with your story, you're going to have a very irritated reader on your hands.

I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.

De alguna manera, la decepción había hecho mucho más concreto el concepto del paraíso.

I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive," Kynes said.

But, Mummy, couldn't God make another wars, but bad people. Oh! I said. I was disappointed about that. I began to think that God wasn't quite what he was cracked up to be.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

The man from the country has not expected such difficulties; the law, he thinks, should be accessible to everyone and at all times; but as he now takes a closer look at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, at his large pointed nose, his long, sparse, black Tartar beard, he decides that it is better, after all, to wait until he receives permission to enter.

No, freedom was not what I wanted. Only a way out; right or left, or in any direction; I made no other demand; even should the way out prove to be an illusion; the demand was a small one, the disappointment could be no bigger. To get out somewhere, to get out! Only not to stay motionless with raised arms, crushed against a wooden wall.

Beni hayal k?r?kl???na u?ratan benden ba?kas? de?il.

Keines der Mädchen hat mich enttäuscht, nur ich sie beide. Mein Urteil über sie ist heute genau das gleiche, wie damals als ich sie heiraten wollte.

Kafka earned his doctorate in law in 1906 but decided against practicing, to the disappointment of his father.