Quotes About Disappointment

There's no use in talking about the plan, because of course nothing went the way it was supposed to.

I spent nine years living in a graveyard of dead dreams, pretending it was Cinderella's castle. If that's not sad enough to cry over, I don't know what is.

I hated them anyway, and wondered why it had been worth while creating them in the first place.

the false glorious promises of spring were everywhere, showing oddly through the village grime.

This damn place, Natalie said, 2it always turns out not to have the things I want, after all. I get up inside and i knock over an ashtray and everyone looks at me and here I come rushing outdoors because I think it´s where I want to be, and then when I get out here it turns out to be the same old place I passed coming in Thats because you came out the same door, suggested Tony.

If I get hold of a book and see that the sun shone, the moon floated by, the air was fragrant, the birds tweeted—I fling it across the room.

Take my husband, for instance. There's no greater bungler than my Nachman-Ber. Ever since I've known him, he hasn't earned two broken kopeks. Then what's he good for?

I weep to think of all the tricks you've played on me since I've had you for a husband …and now, as if all that weren't enough, you decide to become a circus clown. A penny-a-liner! And to think there are even worse fools than you who will pay to read what you write!

My mother, bless her, had your number when she said, "Don't hold your breath waiting for him, because nothing good comes from a graveyard.

You say you're going like a house afire, Mendl? Why don't you jump into the flames! I wouldn't come see you in Boiberik if you were on your deathbed!

His dreams were so big and his successes so small.

It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.

Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit

This is how men ought to be, in order to be happy and to make others happy; but you have to reckon on their not being like that

Nevertheless several things might be said in criticism of his disappointment. Strictly speaking it is not justified, for it consists in the destruction of an illusion. Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

A riddle: If it was true what she said, that she expected nothing from her husband, why was she forever seething with disappointment?

My mother sobbed. I'm not asking for that much. But she was: She was asking him to be someone else.

We thus combine unreasonable optimism about what people might be like, with unreasonable hatred of them when they are not like that (pp269)

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

När du gjorde dig illa var det inte smärtan som fick dig att gråta, berättade modern senare. Det var känslan av att världen hade svikit dig.

Deplangeam adultii ale caror saptamani serbede erau vag animate de niste duminici fade. Mi se parea ingrozitor sa traiesti fara sa astepti nimic de la viata.

She laughed at herself when she saw that she had expected to be at once a heretic and a returned hero; she was very reasonable and merry about it; and it hurt just as much as ever.

She watched the hulk of marriage drifting down on her frail speed-boat of aspiration, and steered in desperate circles.

Always she was disappointed, but always she effervesced anew—