Quotes About Disappointment

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound. - Carol Kennicott

He felt like a man who has asked for a drink of cold charged water and found it warm and flat.

Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10, we're talking...a minus 6. And it's not like I even have very high standards.

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

It's his mother's birthday? But he didn't tell me. I don't have a card. I don't have a gift. How could he do this to me? Men are crap.

There are some things I don't understand about Jess and never will. No wedding dress. No flowers. No photo album. No champagne. The only thing she got out of her wedding was a husband. (I mean, obviously the husband is the main point when you get married. Absolutely. That goes without saying. But still, not even a new pair of shoes?)

Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I'm sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left).

You know, this always happens. Whenever I go away, I always think I'll come back to mountains of exciting posts, with parcels and telegrams and letters full of scintillating news - and I'm always disappointed. In fact, I really think someone should set up a company called holidaypost.com which you would pay to write you loads of exciting letters, just so you had something to look forward to when you got home.

God, real people are so disappointing. I'm sure she would have done it better in the box-set version.

But sometimes it's hard to bear his disappointment at life as well as my own.

But sometimes that's because reality is inferior to what life should be like.

mean, it's fine. Really. That's the way it goes. Some things happen—and some things don't. This one obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I still believe it was.

We look at each other silently and I feel like we have more in common right now than I can ever remember. We met guys and we fell in love and everything seemed to work out. Until it didn't.

I sogni spesso sono destinati a infrangersi contro la realtà. Ma sono quelli più semplici i più dolorosi, perché ci appaiono così personali, così ragionevoli, così raggiungibili. Ti sembra sempre di essere a un passo dal poterli toccare con la mano, ma mai abbastanza vicino da afferrarli, e questo basta a spezzarti il cuore.

People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life

Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.

It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.