Quotes About Disappointment

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!

Baird leaned back on the couch and sighed. Gods, he'd expected her to try something like this at the beginning of the week when she'd first had her sister send up the bag of revealing clothing. But not now. Not when they'd been getting so close and enjoying each other's company so much. To know that she still wanted to get away from him so badly hurt—hurt like hell. "Bebo,

She hadn't had many lovers but the men she'd been with in the past had convinced her that sex was like a box of chocolates you never knew what you were going to get when you went to bed with a man. And sadly, you were more likely to pick the nasty pink marshmallow cream than the yummy nut cluster.

It's horrible when someone dumps you, especially when he's not your type.

The trouble with any salvation usually is that it's not at all funny.

I bumped into every kind of disappointment, and was frustrated at every turn. Roles promised me were given to other players, pictures that offered me a chance were shelved, no one was particularly interested in me, and I had not developed a strength of personality to make anyone believe I had special talents. I wanted so desperately to succeed that I drove myself relentlessly, taking no time off for pleasures, or for friendships." - Jean Arthur

Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.

Oh, how this sucked. This sucked so thoroughly. It was hard to even quantify the level of suck involved here.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

There is no adulation for a failed revolutionary, only a sympathy akin to pity or even contempt, not so much because he has failed but because he has lived so long.

A fair weather friend always leave you in a lurch.

God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive.

Serena maintains today that as George grew older he also grew out of his mind. Many men do, in my experience. Life does not come up to their expectations: they grow older, and disappointed. At fifty they realise others have passed them by, made more money, won more respect. Their sexual drive fades and the self-esteem that goes with it. They take to litigation and shake their fists at other drivers.

Come le si era chiuso il cuore ai primi disinganni, nel vedere che l'amor suo non bastava a Raimondo, che egli pensava diversamente da lei, che faceva consistere la felicità in cose senza valore per lei!

Le atrajeron con engaños, que el creyó, por su desdicha, y se acercó, satisfecho, con sus buques, a la orilla. ¡Malhaya el corazón noble que de los malos se fía!, que al poner el pie en la arena, le prendieron los realistas.

The problem is that we create an image of ourselves in our childhood and youth (often at the urging of parents, siblings or friends), and subsequently attempt to graft reality onto this image. More often than not, the graft doesn't take and the result is bewilderment and disappointment.

Both unfulfilled promises and unnecessary requests can destroy trust between people.

Estamos destinados a inventar nuestro destino, sin segundas oportunidades. Por eso los hombres nos equivocamos y nos defraudamos, y cometemos atrocidades, pero también, gracias a eso, podemos transformar nuestra vida, inventar sus contenidos.

Porque en esta tierra mía de fracaso acumulado

Ferris Cameron has never been in love -- at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work.

Ferris I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign