Quotes About Disappointment

They called themselves flower children and advocated free love, yet all too often what they experienced was not so much love as deep disappointment and burned-out minds.

I'm starving. When we check into our hotel, let's ask the desk clerk where we can find one of those vast pizzas. What are you talking about? Your guidebook says Florence is a city of vast pizzas. Look it up yourself. Those are vast piazzas , not pizzas! It means public squares! Dan's face fell. Oh. Amy sighed. I honestly thought the clue hunt took the dweeb out of you. No such luck.

My students are very motivated, he finished in a disappointed tone. Kids these days, Dan commiserated.

Do you know there's such a thing as Tater Tots? Back in Happy Valley, they told us we always had the very best, but we didn't have Tater Tots. Another Osiris lie.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.

The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.

Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

What have we all got to ecpect that we allow ourselves to be so line with disappointment.

She had attached herself to youth and hope and seriousness and now they had failed her more than age and despair.

Failures like ours are often just failures of hope. Please – cannot you say you are sorry you did not have more hope?

She dabbed at her eyes. 'You'd be bored, Henry. An unfinished bottle of champagne found in an old cupboard with all the sparkle gone …' The jaded phrase was worthy of a Haymarket author.

When it comes down to it, Matthew was just another disillusioned idealist, an over-reactive Hamlet type--couldn't take it that the world was real.

A feeble fire is worse than an empty grate.

MY HUSBAND Ã¢â'¬Â¦ HAS become a child again. But not any sort of child I'd be proud of. Not any sort of child I would trust.

But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation

So many of us find ourselves saying, "but he was so great!" Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it's important to remember that they did.

A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it.

The sheriff faced forward, the downward angle of his big head radiating disappointment.

Every son eventually learns his daddy has feet of clay. You just happen to have a father of singular rectitude, so it took until you were forty-five. That doesn't make it any less painful.

Y2K was the dud of all duds.