Quotes About Disappointment

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

She stood, in a room of crumbling plaster, pressed to the window-pane, looking up at the unattainable form of everything she loved. She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

Elephants are therefore left only the option of being afraid of little things that sneak up and surprise them. Such things include mice, loud noises, spreadsheet surprises and sudden disappointments, food that is on the menu but unavailable, unannounced visitors, word of the displeasure of a higher executive, bad news about the effect of NutraSweet on the human kidney.

Hope is a terrible gift. The return policy is heartbreak.

Too much hope breaks you, she replied, unable to keep the ache out of her own heart. If you believe too much, the crash is too hard—

Places to which I am instinctively attracted are places where I imagine suffering to be absent. "There," I think, "if only I could get there, then I would suffer no more." The groundless ground of contingency, however, holds out no such hope. For this is the ground where you are born and die, get sick and grow old, are disappointed and frustrated. To

The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.

I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

The nights he would pick up someone always made him sad. It's hard, too, because Patrick began every night really excited. He always said he felt free. And tonight was his destiny. And things like that. But by the end of that night, he just looked sad.

I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

It's hard, too, because Patrick began every night really excited. He always said he felt free. And tonight was his destiny. And things like that. But by the end of that night, he just looked sad.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

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

You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.

There's no fun in fightin' fer people when everything yeh do—no matter what—ain't done right.

He was, then, a hero. He suffered that disappointment which we would all have if we discovered that we were ourselves capable of those deeds which we most admire in history and legend. This, then, was a hero. After all, heroes were not much.

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip

Gut fand er, dass die Post gekommen war. Weniger gut fand er, dass sie aus dem Jahr 1957 stammte.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

oh shit it's shit

Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.