Quotes About Disappointment

But I am not a failure as a human being or as a woman. In some core place deep within, I know this. I fail, yes. But I am not a failure. I disappoint. But I am not a disappointment. Yet when I find myself again in this place—losing the battle for my beauty, my body, my heart—I can sure feel like a failure in every way.

I am pretty sure the myth of me Is better than the reality.

that weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned the things that pass for knowledge I can't understand

He thought of the next Saturday. [...] He thought of the picnic by the dipping pool on the river, where oaks and willows dappled the sun on water the color of tea; and girls in light summer dresses would sit in pools of pale cotton. And he knew he would not go.

People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

No me reconociste, ni entonces ni en ningún otro momento, nunca me has reconocido. ¿Cómo te puedo describir, querido, la decepción de aquel instante? Por primera vez fui consciente de estar predestinada a que no me reconocieras durante toda mi vida

And the strength of love is always misjudged if we evaluate it only by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history. A great, unused capacity for emotion had been lying in wait, and now it raced with outstretched arms towards the first person who seemed to deserve it.

No hay nada que a los hombres les cueste más perdonar que el desengaño en medio de un sincero entusiasmo y el verse alevosamente defraudados por un hombre del que lo han esperado todo.

Sabahtan geceye kadar bir ÅŸeyler beklenir, ancak hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Beklenir durulur. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Beklenir, beklenir, beklenir; düÅŸünülür, düÅŸünülür, ÅŸakaklar aÄŸr?yana kadar düÅŸünülür. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Yaln?z kal?n?r. Yaln?z... Yaln?z...

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

Fils de putain

So that's that, Duncan is not the father of your child." She sighed. "Pity though, I bet the two of you would have decent-looking kids. Not gorgeous, mind you, but really decent-looking. And sturdy." Aww.

Elliot Leighton spoke up. "The existence of fool's gold does not mean there isn't real gold in the mountains, Mr. Picotte. And the existence of hypocrites who misuse religion for themselves does not mean there isn't a God in heaven who loves His children and sent His Son to die for them." He stood up and stretched. "Never confuse professing Christians with Christ, Mr. Picotte. The former will disappoint you every time. Christ never will.

Just so you know, I.." He stopped. Her heart began to race at the softness of his expression. True love declaration? That would go so far to easing the pain of his treachery "You what?" He gritted his jaw and shook his head. "Nothing" He stepped away, grabbed her shoes, and handed them to her. Fantastic. She'd wanted an I'll Love You Forever, My Darling moment, and she'd gotten footwear. Sigh.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

Every time I learn the truth about something, I'm disappointed

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

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

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.