Quotes About Disappointment

She felt alone, she was secretly waiting for a father who wasn't showing up, she could no longer hold the confusion of that day within the limits of a game.

Si lo que leo o escribo me gusta, no pego ojo; si me disgusta, caigo en un sueño frágil de decepción y descontento.

When I got back to school in the fall, I changed my major from linguistics and didn't take any more classes in the philosophy or psychology of language. They had let me down. I hadn't learned what I had wanted to about how language worked. I hadn't learned anything at all.

Is something the matter?" asked Hannah. "You're not your usual cheerful self." "I'm feeling kind of down," I said. "Did something happen?" "I like someone who doesn't like me," I said. I had thought of it as an approximation, but once I said it, it felt like the truth. •

When I got back to school in the fall, I changed my major from linguistics and didn't take any more classes in the philosophy or psychology of language. They had let me down. I hadn't learned what I wanted to about how language worked. I hadn't learned anything at all.

I felt dissatisfied, as if I was failing to capitalize on some advantage I had from "being" Turkish—one that would compensate for the hassle of having a name and appearance that had always required explanation. It had, I realized, been a real disappointment to get to Turkey and to discover that my name and appearance still required constant explanation

Sometimes, when I caught that glimmer of promise, I tried to touch myself to see if I could have an orgasm. It never quite worked. Afterward, when Mesut had gone into that weird trance, I wondered if I should get up and go to the bathroom and try to do it by myself in peace. But it always felt like more hassle than it was worth.

The closer art reflects reality, the less artistic it becomes. Art is most enticing when it mimics life as a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. The contrary is always a grave disappointment.

Parents—especially step-parents—are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed.

Alegremente" es la palabra de la casa. Estáis envenenados de alegría. Y no era eso lo que pensaba yo encontrar aquí. Creí que encontraría... a mis verdaderos compañeros, no a unos ilusos».

But I had done for them what no one had ever tried to do for me. To say, to their hopes: No.

A lot of similarity exists between a private organisation and wife because an employee who expects his employer to respect his sincerity, honesty, creativity, loyalty towards own duty to work with dignity of life soon gets disappointed a lot.

A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn't deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn't desire in all.

A person who has been betrayed many times even dreads to meet the people; One who has deceived others many times enjoys to have often crowd around oneself.

A person who has deceived the people twice through false promises, still trusting him or believing in his words again is like fooling themselves only.

Friendship gives pain not pleasure or happiness because in close relationship people build expectation from each other and that only leads to frustration and disappointment.

Every person has the right to expose himself to whatever disappointment he chooses

He stood looking out past the certainty of the empty porch, but he couldn't imagine his father standing anywhere else. It was like listening for the phone to ring, wanting it to ring so badly you convince yourself that you can feel the person on the other end of the line, feel them dialing your number, but then you wait and wait, and it never rings.

I felt like I'd just discovered my last big glass of milk had actually come from a bull.

Well…Shit." They were, as last words go, not terribly inspired. But