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Quotes About Disappointment

It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
~ Meg White
'Prem Granth' was a good film, but it didn't work.
~ Raza Murad
When you have a good relationship with a manager, and he leaves, it is disappointing.
~ John McGinn
But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.
~ Demetri Martin
You want to be the best, and you hear a lot of good things about yourself, and then you find out that you're going to debut as a caddy - it's a little gut-wrenching, and it hurt.
~ Dolph Ziggler
I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending.
~ Frederick Barthelme
I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.
~ Fredrich Nietzche
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
~ Friedrich Neitzsche
The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The disappointed man speaks.—I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the apes of their ideal.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
That was another trouble with women, they were never there when you wanted or really needed them. They helped each other, all right, but they expected men to do all sorts of impossible feats of derring-do to prove themselves worthy of the great gift of their love (and what was that when you got down to it?—a fleeting clench-and-wriggle in the dark, illuminated only by the mute, incomprehensible perfection of a dainty breast, that left you bewildered and sad).
~ Fritz Leiber
The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
If anything was, that the world will always--it can only--disappoint.
~ Galt Niederhoffer
Their looks and personalities were still intact, but some thing had atrophied ever so slightly. Their faces bore the distinct wear of goals gone too long unfulfilled.
~ Galt Niederhoffer
Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.
~ David Rakoff
As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.
~ Bruce Vilanch
It's hard dealing with wins and losses.
~ Matt LaFleur
The good wins are still great, and you are on cloud nine when that happens, but the losses sting.
~ John Isner
Playing 16 years is completely unexpected and going through everything we went through. Big disappointments, huge wins, creating that type of union with the coaching staff, with the front office, with the staff, teammates. It's been an amazing journey, way beyond anything that can be expected.
~ Manu Ginobili
I could string together 15 wins in a row and still not get a title shot.
~ Michael Chiesa
I was really sad after 'The Avengers' when I realized I was not going to have a part in 'Thor 2' or 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' But I'm not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.
~ Clark Gregg
Our careers are only but so many years, so when you have to wipe out an entire season basically because of injury it's kind of disappointing.
~ Jason McCourty
At Wisconsin, I wasn't working for people who believed in me.
~ Stan Van Gundy
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
~ Frances Wright