Quotes About Disappointment

Si no esperas nada de nadie, nunca estarás decepcionado.

Você nunca se decepciona quando não espera nada de alguém.

I went there to see him instead of to Yale and it was there I found out how he had fooled me all those years and what a hypocrite he was. I found out on the day we saw the baby born.

got depressed with the ending on Tuesday: four pages of anti-climactic question and answer between Doctor and Sara, dry and chopped logical as an adding machine: now, you've decided this, how do you feel about that. Bad as a rich involved poem with a bare flat two-line moral tacked on the end: this is the truth kiddies

New Yorker rejection of poems may smack me in the stomach any morning.

It was frighteningly close to what he believed of his father at the worst moments - that he really was the kind of man who would send a letter signed Sincerely, Cpl. Peter Vilmos to someone he'd seen naked.

And that is why we do it, he decided. Because we hope it will bring us peace. But it never, never does.... Sludig

You took your shot. It didn't work out. Now you get to do laundry. That's what life is shaped like.

Once you cross the line to hate, disappointment is irrelevant; it's a given. If you hate someone, you're only too happy to have them disappoint you. It proves a point.

Never judge a family by their address or bank account. And never underestimate the power of the American public to utterly shock and disappoint you.

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.

Failed by both the angels and Cornelia, Iuletta had turned at last to God for what she wanted.

I never doubted my standing in the next life, but I often felt shame in this life, constantly disappointing God in my failure to love as He asked me to love. As such, I was caught in a kind of stupor of unworthiness.

The expectation of fulfillment in relationships will always fail you

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.

Once Spencer was safely out of the shop, John yanked her around to face him and said, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Before she had a chance to answer him, Alex showed up at his side, grabbed Emma similarly and hissed, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Persephone looked at Dunford and smiled, waiting for her turn, but much to her disappointment, he just stood there and glared at all three women.

A pier is a disappointed bridge.

Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.

I didn't know that disappointment and grief could become all consuming. I couldn't comprehend how those feelings could cripple a person permanently and cast a shadow over an entire future.

be happy at last. But maybe I wasn't meant to be happy. Or to be a mother. Maybe the universe was just teasing me, letting me float briefly up to the clouds to enjoy the view from there, only to slam me back down to earth and rub my face in the dirt.

I don't know what I would do if they let me down like that. If they didn't want to see me. I won't do that to Alan, no matter how angry I am with him. I'll make sure they continue to have a relationship with him, and they can judge him for themselves as they get older.