Quotes About Disappointment

It's upsetting when the nice bloke you really like turns out to be a complete, lying, two-timing bastard. But it's nearly as bad when the bloke that you thought was an unreliable heartbreaker turns out to be uncomplicated and nice.

Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As

and Liam was a dead loss from day one, thinking he'd be

So often I have known, right there in the pulpit, even as I read the words, how far they fell short of any hopes I had for them.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

She had followed her father's thoughts back to that old bitterness, and the bitterness simmered in his half-closed eyes as he reflected on the inevitability of his disappointment.

The truth now. He was disappointed in human beings. He had seen too many betrayals, too many pitiful weaknesses, too much greed for money and fame. The falseness between lovers, husbands and wifes, fathers, sons, mothers, daughters

Suspiró, abrumado por los niveles de imbecilidad que padecía el mundo.

Soñaba toda la semana con la salida, pero apenas entraba a su casa se sentía irritado: la abrumadora obsequiosidad de su madre era tan mortificante como el encierro.

Mocht de patiënte zich op enig moment tijdens de behandeling 'ontgoocheld' voelen - hij pauzeerde even om tot ons te laten doordringen dat deze verduidelijking belangrijk was -, dan zou ze die onmiddellijk kunnen onderbreken.

To understand that you have blown it, that you can never fix it is one of the worst feelings ever.

Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they?

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

Despite the doctor's orders, I bought myself several cartons of cigarettes (…) I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.

What do you want me to say, sir? That I'm the vegetable that I refused to become, that I'm so disappointed in myself that I can no longee look at myself in the mirror? That I hate myself?

He was disappointed on his first Vietnam tour in 1965 when he'd seen little action. Now, with his own company, he was eager to be put to use. His ears stuck out on either side of his high-and-tight and he wore US Marine Corps–issued glasses in thick black plastic frames. In his wallet, he carried a formal portrait of his wife, Missy, and daughter, Marianne, both wearing pink. The politics of the war didn't concern him at all. He was a marine; there was a war on.

I felt silly to be falling into such an obvious trap of letting my expectations interfere with what was actually happening, but I also felt an all-too-familiar sadness creeping up from my chest to my eyes. In the stillness of the retreat I saw how I did this a lot: envisioning how something, or someone, had to be perfect, and then being disappointed when they failed, pulling myself back into a sullen remove.

Ray was disappointed by the (Millenium) wheel. Too well engineered, he said. He wanted the wind in his hair and a rusty handrail and the faint pssibility that the whole structure might collapse.

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

I laugh when I think of how many hours I have spent in my life weaving storylines that never came true until, like weeds, they covered my heart.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class:

Pela primeira vez vi como dois tipos amados, divertidos e famosos podem acabar por ser menos amados, não tão divertidos e muito menos famosos por tentar fazer nada mais do que aquilo que os amigos lhes disseram que eles eram bons a fazer. Tenho a certeza que se desfizeram amizades. Amigalhaços leais deixaram de aparecer, causando sentimentos reais de traição e amargura. No fim, acho eu, todos nós os deixámos mal.

I watched the poor sheep's eyes – a look I'd see again and again in the dying – as the animal registered its imminent death, that terrible unforgettable second when, either from exhaustion or disgust, it seemed to decide finally to give up and die. It was a haunting look, a look that says, You were – all of you – a terrible disappointment. The eyes closed slowly, as if the animal were going to sleep, almost willfully. I had my fresh lamb.