Quotes About Disappointment

What a shitbucket.

My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment.

I looked for the sunniest spot I could find, but you know it was the damnedest thing—it sure looked like the sun and it was bright like the sun, but there was absolutely no warmth coming from it. And this wave of sadness came over me—the sun was just like my mother." (Quote from Heather, a patient)

My father never did any of the things that my friends' fathers did with them. We never tossed a football around or even watched games together. He would always say, "I don't have time—maybe later," but he always had time to sit around and get drunk.

How could parents endure to labour for years, to sacrifice themselves so that their children should have nothing but the best, and to discover in the end that it had all been for so little, for a quick visit on national holidays and a few hours spent in front of the television set in a silence neither side knew how to break?

That was the thing I hated, that I'd made such a lousy choice. But I didn't. You set out to convince me you were exactly what I was looking for. I had no reason to mistrust you. You lied, I didn't.

and demand an answer." "She didn't have as good a time

Condom," she gasped. A movement stopped. "What?" Phoebe felt the earth open up in preparation of swallowing her. How could she have not mentioned this before? "I'm not on anything right now," she whispered. "Birth control. I'm not on the Pill." She gestured helplessly. "Shit, fuck, damn." Disappointment tied her in knots. "I was really only interested in that middle part," she joked.

Shit, fuck, damn." Disappointment tied her in knots. "I was really only interested in that middle part," she joked.

What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered pictures from the Second World War, appear to have been staged. It is that we are surprised to learn they were staged, and always disappointed.

Someone is always at the door, no one is ever there.

That if you never get your hopes up," she said, taking a sip of hot chocolate, "you'll never be disappointed." "Ouch

Dreams changed a person, and there was a little danger in that, because having a powerful dream made you vulnerable to failure and disappointment.

If I'd known how the week was going to turn out I would have sent it back first thing Monday and asked for a refund.

Like many spells with unusual names, the Unrobed Ladies was a great deal less exciting than it sounded.

Boating, my dear Mrs. Bedel, is the dullest of all things; don't you think so? Because a boat looks very pretty from the shore, we fancy that the shore must look very pretty from a boat; and when we try it, we find we have only got down into a pit and can see nothing rightly. For my part, I hate boating and I hate the water...

It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can never deliver on its promises.

Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give?

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

Last night they hadn't even fucked. What the hell was the point of protective custody if you weren't at least going to get to have sex with your protector?

Most people don't fall out of love at the same time. One person always wants more than the other person can give them. And that ends in bitterness.

All cynics are disappointed idealists.

He was dismayed to find that his English—despite years of mandatory instruction in school, months of private lessons with a Bible studies PhD from Exeter visiting Israel to research Christ, repeated encounters with every episode of every season of Sex and the City (subtitled), sporadic encounters with Fast & Furious 1–6 (undubbed), and an aborted reading of the collected works of Sherlock Holmes (abridged)—sucked.

sickness of hope deferred