Quotes About Disappointment

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

The most bitter thing for a child is to see in another just the kind of son his mother deserved

Nearing fifty, Vinny felt more than ever the sweet disappointments only a romantic knows, whose very desires invite frustration; who loves twilight rather than midday, the echo more than the voice, the moon more than the sun, and women better than men;

Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this happens, I see it happening, I even feel myself, sometimes, standing at some temporal crossroads, some distinct moment at which I can walk away and keep it from happening, but I never do. I grab at everything, I end up with nothing, and then I feel bereft. I mourn for the loss of something I never even had.

The proud may be for a time in great power, and may see success in all that they undertake; but in the end they will find only disappointment and wretchedness.

Unlike your mother," she said, exhaling, "I told the culprit immediately. I thought at the very least he would visit me in the hospital after it was all done, but the son of a bitch sent me a get well card. Can you imagine? Serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

I push my ice cream dish away. What's left in the bowl isn't cold and delicious anymore. Now it's just lukewarm, melted soup, because obviously nothing good lasts forever.

Your mother never would have spoken to me in such a fashion.' 'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the tone of my voice doesn't change the truth.

To sum it up, your father is morally corrupt and worthless. ..If you'd like an elaborated version: He is a rotter who wishes to be king, I also think he's annoyed by the fact that he's turned out to be a member of the human race and thereby vulnerable to death. Lady Joan Wilde

You can't have that wish, my Little Bear,' said Mother Bear.

en esta ciudad que exalta en exceso los ánimos y hace promesas que luego no cumple.

Perhaps one of the reasons why God chooses to leave us in this terribly broken world with its various disappointments is to create in our souls a certain dissatisfaction, an insatiable hunger for home.

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.

My disappointments, instead of converging toward a center and constituting if not a system at least an ensemble, are scattered, each supposed itself unique and thereby wasted, lacking organization.

DorinÅ£a nesatisf?cut? este suferin??; ea nu-i pl?cere decât în timpul satisfacerii; ÅŸi, odat? satisf?cut?, este decepÅ£ie.

Dup? ce-ai gustat dezam?git din otrava religiei, tov?r??ia muzicii te dezlipe?te de accidentele decep?iei.

My faculty for disappointment surpasses understanding. It is what lets me comprehend Buddha, but also what keeps me from following him.

The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us to be posted in the schools.

For all its lucidity, this people readily sacrifices to illusion: it hopes, it always hopes too much

As a general rule, men expect disappointment:

My faculty for disappointment surpasses understanding.

What an idea, to want to be loved! They impose it upon themselves without success. After so many fruitless attempts, would they not be better off yielding to the obvious, admitting at last the substantiation of their disappointments?