Quotes About Disappointment

My last words to him were to assure him that we would bring Sally to join him later. And you know what your dad said? He said that he would wait for as long as it took." Grace bit her lip. "But she never came, did she? And he never stopped waiting.

While their hotel room was clean, it was also stifling, too small for four people, especially with disappointment crowding in with us.

It's okay," Mom said, instantly absolving him of any guilt. It was as if she had become so accustomed to disappointment, so inured to people reneging on their promises that she expected setbacks, heartbreak. Couldn't Merc see the panic in her eyes? Couldn't he see how she focused on me, expecting me to figure everything out?

Ever the collector of treasure maps that promised the world but led nowhere.

She promised to be good. She wasn't.

He left school without even sending you a text message saying 'I hope you enjoy the beautiful scenery on your trip through Dumpslandia.

Like I said, I'm a disappointment to her. She wanted me to be a murderer and an extortionist, like my father.

That's one thing about human beings I don't see the point in: love. It does nobody any good. You love someone, and either they let you down or they die.

Gignomai took a book off the top of the pile, glanced at the spine (Caecilius on Prosody) and opened it. It began with a beautiful illuminated letter B and went downhill from there.

The fish you don't catch is always the biggest.

To be a king, is to be a disappointed man.

Upon his return to New York, Robert opened his mail to learn that Ernest Rutherford had rejected him. "Rutherford wouldn't have me," Oppenheimer recalled. "He didn't think much of Bridgman and my credentials were peculiar.

Wir hätten Freunde werden können, aber du weißt, wie es mit Freundschaften gehen kann. Enttäuscht der eine den anderen, können sie schnell in Hass umschlagen, viel schneller als gewöhnliche Bekannschaften. Wir neigen dazu, einem Menschen, den wir schätzen, einen Fehltritt viel ärger anzurechnen als einem Unbekannten.

To not satisfy you would be a tragedy." - Salvatore from The Tutor by Kailin Gow

She was embarrassed that Drew was the type of walking one-night stand guy their mom had warned her about. ", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Stupid,' she said. That was the only word for this sense of enormous loss where there had been so very little to lose.

Who is it that gave people so many desires and then straight away refused to grant any of them? I don't know who it was that made this world, but I know I hate him.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Anger is born of unfulfilled desire. It is born of unfulfilled expectation.

The money came in bundles tied with elastic bands, in exchange for the promise of a lorry ride across the border. In many cases, people were dumped off before they even reached the border, and so they were back to square one, back in Turkey, back in Ali's Café, but this time without money. It was groundhog day, a Sisyphean sentence – to endlessly go up and down the airless corridor that never changed, though everything else changed. And never to arrive.

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

Look at it like this: I won the Skills Challenge and didn't get invited back.

I've been involved in a couple of atrocious World Cups.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.