Quotes About Disappointment

He'd been many things to me, Nathaniel had, most of them indescribable. But he never looked so much of a puppet as he did now. And already it had all gone wrong.

The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

I feel a dark wave of regret for the kind of person I turned out to be.

Driving a Porsche is like fucking a model. It will never feel as good as it looks.

The future just isn't what it used to be

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Things aren't always what they appear,' he said softly, yet his voice carried a grim authority. 'I've spent my life searching for the ultimate, the best. All that is rare, unique, different, special. And of all I've experienced, people are the most disappointing.

Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.

Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.

Domani, a scuola, quando ci vedremo, per favore, corrimi incontro. L'ho sperato tutti questi giorni e non è mai successo...

El amor es una goma elástica que los humanos, a fuerza de tirar, consiguen que se alargue. Pero, al cabo, uno de los que tiraban se cansa y suelta su extremo y la goma le da un porrazo en las narices al que todavía seguía tirando…

Esperar comprensión y amor de las mujeres era como pedirle caricias a un puercoespín.

Recordó arrepentido su último ligue con una loca levantada en el Nueve, una diseñadora de vestuario mimosa hasta el empalago. Fue como acostarse con un malvavisco.

Pero si un día encontrara ese autor tan buscado, ese fantasma, ese genio, difícilmente éste mejoraría lo ya dicho por tantos otros acerca de las grietas que separan las expectativas de la juventud y la realidad de la madurez, lo ya dicho por tantos otros sobre la naturaleza ilusoria de nuestras elecciones, sobre la decepción que culmina la búsqueda de logros, sobre el presente como fragilidad y el futuro como dominio de la vejez y de la muerte.

Y, mirando hacia los rascacielos, se quedó esperando a recibir sensaciones de entusiasmo, de emoción, de plenitud, de felicidad. Sin embargo, la espera se reveló únicamente como una espera, sin más. Una espera plana, sin sobresaltos, sin entusiasmo alguno. Cuanto más miraba a los rascacielos en busca de cierta intensidad, más evidente se hacía que no iba a llegarle sensación especial alguna.

I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?

but when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.

a sow bug crawls across a desk. If he is turned over on his back, one can observe the tremenous struggle he goes through to get on his feet again. During this interval he has 'purpose' in his life. When he succeeds, one can almost see the look of victory in his eyes. [...] And yet mixed with his smugness is a little disappointment. Now that he has come out on top, life seems aimless.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

We may only imagine the scene, the old man, the rough ex–sea captain who had so loved little Wilberforce as a boy, and who had entertained such hopes for him, only to see them dashed.