Quotes About Disappointment

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;Yet, fool'd with hope, men favor the deceit;Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay.Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possesst.

I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

I was always a dreamer with high aspirations, but I kept coming up short my whole life.

And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.