Quotes About Disappointment

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way.

We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

Everyone looks for someone to love them, even when they hate themselves. They wait for lightning to strike, for the phone to ring, for a knight to arrive in shining armor. When people are disappointed in love, they think they're unlovable. They feel deprived and always hungry. This hunger makes them desperate for any offer of love and attention, and susceptible to all forms of mistreatment. To encourage

Ia mengakui bisikan hatinya; bahwa laki-laki kebanyakan tak bisa dipercaya, dan bahwa harapan yang ia labuhkan pada Sasim adalah alang-alang yang telah patah - Zulaika

How many people, in the beginning of life, think they will finish it as Alexander the Great or Lord Byron, and instead, retain for the whole of their existence, the rank of titulary counsellor?

Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn't expect much from her re-unions.

terrible are the wounds of a murdered dream

Se buscan así mismos en las mujeres, buscan su ideal y se ven repetidamente desengañados porque un ideal es como sabemos, aquello que nunca puede encontrarse

It was idealism that made him so angry. He expected too much out of life.

La mayor desgracia posible es un matrimonio feliz; no le queda a uno la menor esperanza de divorciarse

La obsesión de los primeros es lírica: se buscan a sí mismos en las mujeres, buscan su ideal y se ven repetidamente desengañados porque un ideal es, como sabemos, aquello que nunca puede encontrarse. El desengaño que los lleva de una mujer a otra le brinda a su inconstancia cierta disculpa romántica, de modo que muchas mujeres sentimentales pueden sentirse conmovidas por su terca poligamia.

Es curioso, la gente emplea palabras groseras de la mañana a la noche, pero, cuando oye hablar por la radio a una persona conocida, a la que aprecia, utilizando la palabra "Mierda" en cada frase, se siente decepcionada

I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it.

I had been poor myself, and knew what awaited him in the world. He would find that they who fawned on him most would be first to turn their backs on him now. He would be rudely disillusioned regarding the fables of love and friendship, and would become cynical, bitter, and sceptical of there being any disinterested good in human nature.

A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.

And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.

Love requited is a short circuit.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

Yes, of course, black Americans are a special group, and I'm disappointed that they're not Republicans, given our traditions. We're not getting much love in return, despite our efforts.