Quotes About Disappointment

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

I was of the "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn't give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff" school of thought.

Life is a great disappointment.

I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going to look, the best I'm ever going to feel, the best I'm ever going to do,' and it ain't that great?

You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don't come. Well don't waste your time waiting.

Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

I sympathize with the guys who went to go see The Phantom Menace and convinced themselves that it wasn't as bad as it was. Phantom Menace is worse, I would argue, than Star Trek ever was, but we were kind of in denial. There were some beautiful shots of the Enterprise and we got to see some Klingons, so it wasn't a total disaster, but in large part it was pretty boring.

When Star Trek is hitting its stride and doing what it's supposed to do, it can be very provocative, but because it's reaching so high and trying to live up to its own expectations, it fails more than most shows.

On the whole, as the morbid & mucilaginous monkey said when he climbed up to the top of the Palm-tree & found no fruit there - one can't depend upon dates.

The search for Eden always ends in tears.