Quotes About Disappointment

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

Life ain't the movies.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

Some people pray to their guides and feel let down by their guides when they go through a challenge in life.

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.

I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!

We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.

NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.