Quotes About Disappointment

The more highly we think of ourselves, the sorrier we feel for ourselves when we do not get what we know we deserve.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

On our second day, my parents announced that Kauai was boring. "There's nothing to look at, just plants and rainbows," my father declared. "There are no stores," added my mother. Instead of staying for another week, we left the next day. The

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

I knew Frédérique wouldn't write. But I persevered in the pleasure of taking my sadness to the limit, the way one does with some practical joke. The pleasure of disappointment. It wasn't new to me. I had been relishing it ever since I was eight years old, a boarder in my first, religious, school. And perhaps they were the best years, I thought. Those years of discipline. There was a kind of elation, faint but constant throughout all those days of discipline, the sweet days of discipline.

Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking up with a man was like reading a book you had read when you had forgotten that you had read it. You had not been for ten minutes in any sort of intimacy with any man before you had said: "But I've read all this before…" You knew the opening, you were already bored by the middle, and, especially, you knew the end….

The truth is always a disappointment, which is why everybody lies.

L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique: savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur et accélérer quand même; courir à sa perte, le sourire aux lèvres; attendre avec curiosité le moment où cela va foirer. L'amour est la seule déception programmée, le seul malheur prévisible dont on redemande.

Les contes de fées n'existent que dans les contes de fées. La vérité est plus décevante. La vérité est toujours décevante, c'est pourquoi tout le monde ment.

L'amour est la seule déception programmée, le seul malheur prévisible dont on redemande. »

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L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique : savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur, et accéler quand même ; courir à sa perte, le sourire aux lèvres ; attendre avec curiosité le moment où cela va foirer. L'amour est la seule déception programmée, le seul malheur prévisible dont on redemande.

Basmele nu exista decat in basme. Adevarul este mai dezamagitor. Adevarul este intotdeauna dezamagitor, de-aia minte toata lumea.

En el siglo XX, el amor es un teléfono que no suena.

El sexo es una lotería: dos personas pueden adorar eso por separado y no congeniar juntos. Piensas que la cosa puede evolucionar, pero resulta que no evoluciona.

Tuturor criticilor pe care i-am dezam?git, a? vrea s? le spun, o dat? pentru totdeauna, c? sunt de acord cu ei. ?i mie mi-ar pl?cea s? scriu c?r?i mai bune.

My earthly body has been a terrible disappointment to me.

A force d'être déçu par les autres, je finirai bien par croire en moi.

La delusione è un sentimento che non delude mai.

Elle éprouvait une paix qui peut-être était de la déception. Elle ignorait qu'elle ne serait pas toujours secourue ; non, les morts ne secourent pas les vivants : nous les avons invoqués en vain au bord de l'abîme ; leur silence, leur absence ressemblaient à une complicité.

La irreligión no había sido para mí sino una forma vacía donde había resbalado mis humillaciones de pequeño campesino enriquecido, despreciado por sus camaradas burgueses. Yo la llenaba ahora con mi decepción amorosa y con un rencor casi infinito.

Adeline was really rather charming, she always had a man in her life, but it never worked out: either they were nice but she didn't find them very exciting; or they were exciting but she didn't find them particularly nice, or they were neither nice nor exciting and she wondered why she was with them at all. She found a way of making the exciting men nicer and that was by leaving them. But then, they weren't exciting anymore either.

Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust could.

The Great Outside that had filled Neverfell's thoughts had noticed her and judged her. It had found her wanting. No, worse than that, it had screamed in horror and disgust and fled from her.