Quotes About Disappointment

I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents' attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that, succeeding was already a habit too ingrained to break.

Was I sad about the way things stood, and did I wish, still, the spring and even this summer had gone differently? Yes. But the anger, somehow had been lifted, leaving behind a sense that I could deal with whatever came next for us, even if it was nothing at all. Which sounds bad, I knew. Having no expectations for some people in your life can be depressing, if not devastating. But with others, it's what is necessary. The hard part is not figuring out which one applies, but accepting it.

When you've never gotten love from someone, you dob't know what it might look like if it ever does appear.

Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

I don't want to go back into that dressing room and take off my boots and my pants and start putting on jeans only to discover that the ones you brought me are all too tight, and then when I ask for the next size up, be informed that they're the biggest size you carry. I can't take that today. Seriously, I'll blow my head off. So look at me, look at my ass, look at my gut, take it all in, and then tell me honestly if you anticipate we're going to have a problem.

All paradises fail. —Constance Waverly

We're not buying Sam's Club condoms," said Owen. "Their trash bags don't even work.

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

Going to Fords Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food.

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.

It is my childish mind that thinks people are ready to give it just because you need it.

Going up, Herzong found a bouquet of violets, dropped from the hand of a woman. Perhaps a bride. Little perfume remained in them, but they made him remember... These violets smelled to him like female tears. He gave them a burial in the trash ca, hoping they had not dropped from a disappointed hand.

Looking for happiness - ought to be prepared for bad results.

An old man, disappointed, of failing strength, may try to reinvigorate himself by means of anger.

Why, it was a crying matter, no fooling, to anyone who might know which side was up, that here was I trying to refuse to lead a disappointed life.

When I was younger I used to think that my good intentions were somehow communicated to people by a secret telepathic wig-wag system. It was therefore disappointing to see at last that unless I spelt things out I couldn't hope to get credit for goodwill.

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

And sure enough, Trump's win set off a cluster bomb of cognitive dissonance the likes of which history rarely sees. To untrained observers—voters and pundits alike—the public reaction looked like a combination of anger, disappointment, fear, and shock. But to trained persuaders, it was a front-row seat to a show of cognitive dissonance so pure and so deep that it was, frankly, beautiful.

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me?a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

I have made all sorts of acquaintances, but have as yet found no society. I know not what attraction I possess for the people, so many of them like me, and attach themselves to me; and then I feel sorry when the road we pursue together goes only a short distance.

Man spricht vergebens viel, um zu versagen; Der andre hört von allem nur das Nein.

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