Quotes About Disappointment

The truth is, if you like long hours in solitude, emotional turmoil, constant self-criticism, and bouts of heartrending disappointment, you'll make a good writer. And if you can actually tell an engaging story, you might just make a great one.

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).

The glass shattered like a poor man's dreams.

After I graduated from Harvard, I enrolled in the school of journalism at Columbia University. I did that for my dad. He wanted his son to be a journalist. I disappointed him. I wrote about sports instead.

Pity the child for his loss. He truly wanted his laser gun to kill the Minotaur, believed that it would, even. Each time an act of hope fails, the capacity for experiencing hope itself diminishes. The child will be lucky if he reaches adulthood with even a shred of faith intact.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

You took me riding in your rocket gave me a star But at a half a mile from heaven you dropped me back Down to this cold, cold world

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

Letiel put her hand on his arm, and smiled at him. He could feel her empathy. She too had been let down by men. How odd to find this affinity. He hadn't thought of that.

It had happened all wrong.

His interest was pricked by the man's attractiveness, but he also felt disappointed that his private meeting with Eve was curtailed.

Disappointment for Slavs is always more poetic and profound, as well as more frequent, than it is for Americans.

Do you stop reading a book because you don't want to watch the characters you like turn out to be unlikable, or the ones with which you identify denied the happy ending you believe they deserve?

Today my life has frogs aplenty and this delights me, but I am not so pleased with myself. My life hasn't turned out as I expected it would, for one thing. For another, I no longer know all about anything. I don't even know the first thing about frogs, for instance.

Perfect days are just the world setting you up to rip you down.

I remembered my resolution about helping the poor and ignorant today, so I took some of my old Beano annuals to a quite poor family who have moved into the next street. I know they are poor because they have only got a black and white telly. A boy answered the door. I explained why I had come. He looked at the annuals and said, 'I've read 'em,' and slammed the door in my face. So much for helping the poor!

Perveen should have been happy to hear these words of release; but instead, she felt a great sorrow that the one she'd believed was her kindred spirit had turned out to be such an ordinary, closed-minded man.

The best laid plans may not get you laid the way you planned.

She had expected this because they were adults. Yet she'd gone off with them because they didn't behave like adults, so that she couldn't understand, now, whether they'd deserted her or whether she'd been stupid to expect otherwise.

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

Soccer is a cruel sport sometimes.