Quotes About Disappointment

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

perturbed to put trust on people nowadays, people changes partner as per necessity. :(

What do you do when you wait too long only to be disappointed? Get on with it my mate, the clocks are ticking and they ain't goin' na pack 'emselves up.

Ive tried and tried and now I give up. I refuse to be the perfect friend to people that cant treat me with the same respect.

Life never seems to go the way you imagine it will.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

the worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth.

Then it all crashes down And you break your crown And you point your finger But there's no one around

There's no place like home / So where am I?" MacKaye sings with undisguised bitterness. "I just felt so betrayed by my friends," MacKaye says, "for doing what I wanted to do, for doing what I thought was the right thing." They performed the song only once, at their first show after reuniting. Afterward Baker and Preslar heaved handfuls of change at the audience.

he didn't think much of the ticket. He examined carefully the piece of green cardboard which he held in his paw. "It doesn't seem much to get for eighty pence," he said. After all the lovely whirring and clanking noises the ticket machine had made, it did seem disappointing. He'd expected much more for his money.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

There is only one sure means in life, Deasey said, of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility, and disillusion. And that is always to ensure, to the utmost of your ability, that you are doing it solely for the money.

I thought you seemed like someone who might enjoy backgammon, said the kid, gravely mistaken.

I saw that I could write ten thousand more pages of shimmering prose and still be nothing but a blind minotaur stumbling along broken ground, an unsuccessful, overweight ex-wonder boy with a pot habit and a dead dog in the trunk of my car.

He and Dolores had been married thirty-one months before parting. There had been an extramarital kiss, entrepreneurial disaster, a miscarried baby, sexual malaise, and then very soon they had been forced to confront the failure of an expedition for which they had set out remarkably ill-equipped, like a couple of trans-Arctic travelers who through lack of preparation find themselves stranded and are forced to eat their dogs.

Whatever made her happy made me happy—except the time she thought divorcing me would make her life happier. That didn't do much for me.

The excitement and adrenaline that accompany a new case caused a false high that always wore off quickly.

After my sister's death twenty years before, something in them changed toward me. It seemed that I, as the survivor of the accident, was suspect for having done just that. Survived. I am also sure that since that time I have continued to disappoint them in the choices I have made. I think of these as small disappointments accruing over time like interest in a bank account until it was enough for them to comfortably retire on.

On the video monitor, they saw Ted Fielding slap the polished sphere and shout, Open! Open Sesame! Open up, you son of a bitch! The sphere did not respond.

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing.