Quotes About Disappointment

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.

And if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time.

When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.

Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

Sólo cuando no esperamos nada ni albergamos ningún sueño podemos mantener el control de nuestra vida. Los sueños a menudo implican a los demás y es imposible tener la certeza de que los demás no nos defraudarán, ni nos harán daño.

Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in life was all a mirage in a vast, empty desert.

Was it only little more than an hour ago that she had left this room so full of hope and happiness? She had not dreamed that her newfound love would be so effectively shattered in such a short time.

She felt annoyed that he of all people was to be the witness to her failure.

If only he had been any other man in the world.

Oh Christopher, she thought, burying her face in her hands again, why? Why did you have to turn out this way? Or why did you not show yourself in your true colors before I was foolish enough to love you?

What was the point of waiting for a more pleasant post? There was no such thing as pleasure in life for her anymore.

there was many a slip twixt cup and lip.

I am sorry all the same, she said. And that it rained this afternoon. I could have wished that today would be perfect.

Henrietta was bitter. Nothing in her life had turned out well. Like everyone else, she had striven all her life to achieve happiness. Yet it seemed to her that she had never been happy.

She did not want to dance with him. But it was one thing not to want to do so and quite another not to be given a chance to do so. Lord Crensford did not come near her during the first three sets, and after that it was perfectly clear to her that he had no intention of doing so. She was not to have the satisfaction of refusing him.

She had not got over him at all, in fact, and she was disgusted with herself when forced to admit the truth.

Sometimes our dreams lead us in the wrong direction and it would be foolish to continue pursuing them out of sheer stubbornness or the fear of disappointing others. There are other dreams waiting to be dreamed—the right dreams, the ones that will lead to contentment.

It is perhaps unwise to allow one person to influence one's decisions . . . People can disappoint us, you know.