Quotes About Disappointment

Hedonistic distress come when experience fails to live up to expectations.

When he comes to learn that he is in fact not related to the queen, and so is not the royal heir

He rejected me! I am so hurt and mad. Can I destroy him?

He's not my biggest fan right now. He's probably even deleted me from his Facebook page.

Once things were different, but now they're the same. He reckons he can live with that; for a guy like him, the rule of thumb is just SSDD, and so fucking what. 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.

His relationship with his father had been like the unfurling of some flower of beautiful potential, which, when wholly opened, turned out to be blighted inside.

We had hoped. It is what we say on the other side, when our vision is shattered and we feel ourselves to be fools for trusting in something we couldn't even see.

to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism—anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

The survival response of popular culture is cynicism—"just lower your expectations of life to the point that you aren't disappointed by anyone or anything.

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism—anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

He starts out wanting to be her lover, but ends up developing just a friendship with a sexual undertone—which he never, or rarely and perfunctorily, follows through on.

phrase "often a bridesmaid, never a bride" originated with a 1925 Listerine advertisement.)

We wanted flying cars; instead we got 140 characters.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

It doesn't matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

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

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'