Quotes About Disappointment

No one ever likes the right person.

If we proceed like the child does with the puppy, if we examine what is hidden in things and persons, in everything that is stimulating in this colorful world, then we will uncover nothing more than that kind of atomized sawdust with which 'science' for a long time has been feeding those hungry for knowledge. Everything real looked at in the light disappoints. The forms lose their shine, color, and aroma, like a fruit that someone has grasped too strongly.

He doubted he would ever make it happen, but it made him feel a bit better, letting a dream form then watching it slowly fade away again. A

C'est comme d'attendre Dieu ou Godot, sauf qu'à la place, c'est Jansson qui arrive.

Sometimes we feel trapped in our humanness. We experience keenly how things fall short of our expectations.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

attempting to moderate the grief of her friend by philosophical observations on the many disappointments to which human life is daily subject

Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the fulness of time he got used to it.

If you look for grand examples of anything from me, I shall disappoint you.

He felt the old bitterness, which he had tried so hard to swallow, rise again in his throat, and he knew there are disappointments that last as long as life.

She lost herself in infinite dismay when she thought of the magnitude of his deception.

She longed for opportunities, but these were not the opportunities she meant.

Heaven deliver me from my friends!

What could be more dreary than final interviews? One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards.

the company—that at the eleventh hour an old ship with a lower standard of speed had been put on in place of the vessel in which I had taken my passage.  America was roasting, England might very well be stuffy, and a slow passage (which at that season of the year would probably also be a fine one) was a guarantee of ten or twelve days of fresh air. I strolled down

She always looks the same: like an angel who came down from heaven yesterday and has been rather disappointed in her first day on earth!

Julia would have got over the other woman, but she would never get over his becoming a nobody

I expected so much, so much of the world and it all fell short.

J'ai besoin que l'on me promette presque tout, tant j'ai vécu longtemps, trop longtemps dans l'ombre du soleil. Je veux de la lumière et de la chasteté – et un feu solaire dans les tripes. Je veux la déception et la désillusion, pour qu'il me soit donné de compléter le sublime triangle et de ne plus avoir sans cesse à quitter la planète pour voler dans l'espace.

John, did Peter Owen (publisher) send you a copy of my book about books? If not I shall flay him. You were first on the list. But the English move slowly. They are all constipated, water-logged, worm-ridden, damn them!

Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey;   Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.