Quotes About Disappointment

She keeps herself in a constant state of unhappiness, so she is never disappointed by life.

stand die Mutter noch immer vor dem Leben wie ein Kind vor den Terrarien im Zoo, an denen kleine Messingschilder mit lateinischen Namen auf Tiere hinwiesen, die man, Augen und Nase dicht am Glas, niemals zu sehen bekam. [...] Die Mutter schaute und wartete, fest überzeugt, dass sich früher oder später etwas regen würde. Ada hingegen hatte sich beim Anblick der verlassenen Behälter sofort abgewandt, die Achseln gezuckt und wusste seitdem nur zu berichten, dass Leere regiere.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

This is how it happens, this is how you stop yourself feeling so much. You go cold, colder still with each disappointment, each betrayal until you find you've frozen over at the core of you and you stop feeling anything anymore.

But you get used to broken promises... Broken promises, along with good intentions that have gone wrong, just litter the highway all through your life. They're nothing to bother about much unless they're your own.

What do you say, Miss Lyndon? Shall we have a go at it?" " 'Shall we have a go at it?' " Ellie choked out. Really, this was not the proposal of her dreams.

She shrugged. "I'm surprised your mother didn't inform you of my presence. Or Belle. She has spoken about you a great deal." His eyes narrowed as his heart sank. "You've become friendly with Belle?" He saw all his hopes for a flirtation with this girl going up in smoke.

Her dreams had been just that—dreams. Wishful illusions, all of her own making. If he wasn't what she'd expected, that was her fault. She'd been expecting something that didn't even exist. And she should have known better.

And then Andrew saw his downfall unfold on her face.

it was probably part of the reason she was feeling so miserable. She'd placed her fate and her happiness in the hands of another, and she hated it.

I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.

If I was doing something that I really, really enjoyed I want to be perfect at it and not make mistakes and do everything right. And when inevitably I made mistakes, because that's what humans do, I would get very angry, very disappointed, very discouraged.

The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let somebody down badly, then even if they tell you it's all right, it cannot be all right.

I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but people who I thought were great enough that they really made a difference. And so I would never want to be disappointed by them, and I want to make sure I never disappoint audience.

When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012, and we're still really no closer to a human expedition to Mars, but that shouldn't detract from the amazing achievements that are being done on a day-to-day basis by robotic envoys.

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.

It is always sad when a player has to drop out injured.

I always felt capable of playing at the highest level. The biggest disappointment is that I've had a lot of injuries.

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

I just did not get on at my school. It completely failed to inspire me.

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

I can't believe they would cancel 'Big Brother!' It's like an institution!

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any instruments.

Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.